624 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
aiexandrii, with the one exception of the length of the 
wing : in the type-specimen that is 93 mm., which agrees 
with Alethe aiexandrii; but in Cassin’s description it is 
given as “4J inches’'’ ( = 120 mm.). This is evidently a 
mistake for 3f inches. 
Turdinus fulvescens. [Akalat.] (Plate XII. figs. 1-4, 
eggs.) 
Beicli. Y. A. iii. p. 736. 
Turdirostris fulvescens Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 54. 
Turdinus cerviniventris Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 119 ; 
Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 379. 
An examination of the type in the Museum of the 
Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia has shewn that Cassin’s 
Turdirostris fulvescens is the species with no pure white on 
the under parts. 
Nos. 3614, 3875, 4321, and another bird not saved, were 
females, evidently sitting, and brought in with the nests on 
which they were caught or shot with bow and arrow. 
No. 3978 was a male with very large testes, that had been 
shot with bow and arrow on the nest, early in the morning ; 
the eggs that came with this bird and nest are Nos. 396, 
397. 
These nests were loosely made shallow cups of large 
leaves, more or less wet and decaying, with a few fine 
stems, fibres, or tendrils inside. They were found on Ioav 
bushes on the borders of the forest, at all times of the year 
except in the driest season. The eggs in every nest were 
two in number; they vary in length from 20 to 23‘5 mm., 
and in width from 15 to 16’5 mm. 
[Eggs of this species vary very much in shape, markings, 
and colour; some are of a long oval form and others of a 
short blunt oval shape ; they are slightly glossy. The 
ground-colour varies from pinkish-white or creamy-white to 
pure white ; some have a few rather large spots and 
blotches of bright maroon and purplish-grey rather sparingly 
scattered all over the shell ; in others the entire shell is 
densely mottled and spotted with rather fine markings of 
