CHLOEOPKONETTS. — PEHC1NIT7S. 291 



2. Japan {S. Fryer). Seebohm Coll. 

 4. Japan (H. P.). Seebohm Coll, 



3. Japan {S. P.). Seebobm Coll. 



Genus CHLOROPHONEUS, Oah. 



Chlorophoneus sulphur eipectas (Less.). 



(Plate XIII. fig. 8.) 



Laniariiis sulphureipectus, Sharpe, ed. Layar^s Birds S. Africa, p. 384 

 (1875-84) : Stark ^ Sclater, Fauna 8. Africa, Birds, ii. p. 40 

 (1901). 



Laniarius sulphureipectus, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 159 (1883). 



Malaconotus Bulptureipectus, Ale.vander, Ibis, 1899, p. 583. 



Chlorophoneus sulphureipectus, Sharpe, Sand-l. iv. p. 291 (1903). 



The eggs of the Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike are of a narrow 

 elliptical shape, somewhat pointed at both ends, and moderately 

 glossy. They are of a bluish-green colour, mottled all over with 

 pale brown and grey. Three examples measure respectively : "75 

 by -53 ; -76 by -53 ; -78 by -55. 



2. Bissao, Senegamhia {Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 

 1. [Senegamhia.]* Crowley Bequest. 



Genus PELICINIUS, Boie. 

 Pelicinius gutturalis (P. L. S. Mull.). 



Lanius bacbakiri, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxxi. fig. 12, a, b 



(1845-54). 

 Laniarius gutturalis, Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Africa, p. 385 (1875- 



84) ; Stark 8( Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Birds, ii. p. 33 (1901). 

 Laniarius bakbakiri, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 162 (1883) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Biersamml. p. 70 (1899). 

 Pelicinius gutturalis, Sharpe, Handel, iv. p. 292 (1903). 



The eggs of the Bakbakiri Bush-Shrike are of a regular oval 

 sh ape and glossy. They are of a blue colour, spotted and blotched,- 

 more densely on the broad half, with reddish brown and lavender 

 or lilac. They measure from -98 to 1-06 in length, and from -73 to 

 •8 in breadth. 



6. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



1. South Africa (^. i. Zaymrrf). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 5. South Africa {F. L. L. : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



CoU.). 



2. Cape Colony (7". .iiimore: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



* This egg, there can be little doubt, forms part of the same clutch as toe 

 two preceding ones. 



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