CALAMOCICHLA. — AETJJTDINAX. 203 



green colour, blotched all over with two shades of brown and with 

 purplish grey or lavender. Three examples measure respectively : 

 . -86 by -62 ; -83 by -59 ; -78 by -6. 



2. Tamala Country, Madagascar Crowley Bequest. 



{W. Deans Cowan). 



1. Betsileo, Madagascar. Crowley Bequest. 



Calamociclila leptorhyncha (Fisch. ^ Beichenow). 



(Plate X. fig. 1.) 



Turdinus leptorhynchua, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 646 (1883) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Mersamml. p. 63 (1899> 

 Oalamocichla leptorhyncha, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 206 (1903). 



The eggs of the East-African Grass- Warbler are of a regular oval 

 form and without gloss. The colour is very pale grey, with numerous 

 spots and dots of olive-brown and lavender-grey. In one specimen 

 the markings mostly appear as very pale lavender-grey blotches, 

 with a few spots of light brown. They measure from •71 to '72 in 

 length, and from -51 to -54 in breadth. 



2. East Africa. ■ Crowley Bequest. 

 2. Zanzibar. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus OEIGMA, Oould. 

 Origma ruhricata (Lath.). 



Origma rubricata, Bxtmsay, Ibis, ^1863, p. 445 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 

 Austr. i. p. 385 (1865) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 185 (1883) ; 

 North, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 142, pi. xiii. tig. 8 (1887); 

 Campbell, Nests 8r Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 226 (1901) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. iv. p. 207 (19U3). 



The egg of the Eock- Warbler in the Collection is of an oval 

 shape, sUghtly glossy and pure white. It measures -86 by -6. 



1. New South Wales (E. P. Ramsay). Gould Coll. 



Genus ARUNDINAX, Blyth. 



Arundinax aedon {Pall.). 



(Plate X. fig. 7.) 



Arundinaz aedon, Taoz. J.f. O. 1872, p. 353; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., 

 Birds, i. p. 390 (1889) ; Tacz. Faune Orn. SibSr. Orient, p. 227 

 (1891) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 207 (1901). 



Arundinax olivacea, Tacz. J.f. O. 1873, taf. i. fig. 1. 



Lusctniola aedon, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 121 (1881) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 83 (1899). 



The eggs of the Thick-biUed Warbler in the Collection are of a 

 regular oval form and t-ery glossy. They are purplish grey, mottled 

 with a darker shade of the same and marked with numerous thin, 



