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Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the 
Our men brought us a clutch in 1896, taken in May, and 
three clutches in 1897, taken about Kuatun on the 5th, 7th, 
and 11th May. Two eggs in my collection out of the clutch 
(three eggs) taken in May 1896, and the clutch of four eggs 
taken on the 7th May, 1897, are of a brownish green, very 
closely freckled with more or less light brownish; but the 
ground-colour of the three eggs taken on the 21st April, 
1898, is a pure light green. The older eggs have possibly 
faded, although I must say that a description of these eggs, 
taken in 1897, gives them as being of a very pale brownish 
sap-green. All these eggs have a dark-brown hair-line 
about the large or small end. This line is easily soluble in 
water. One of the eggs dated May 1896 is ovate, the 
second is a narrow and nearly perfect oval. They measure 
1 -25 X 0’86 and IT8 x 0'88 inch. Two of those dated 7th May, 
] 897, are ovate, with pointed apex, and the other two are 
nearly oval, with both ends pointed. They measure F28x 
0*95, 1*25 x0 91, T20X092, and l*20x0*90 inch. The 
eggs of the third clutch, dated 21st April, 1898, are a rather 
broad ovate; they measure l*20x0*92, 1T7 xO* 91, and 
1T5 xO 92 inch. 
129. Urocissa sinensis (L.). 
A common bird all over Fohkien. On the 25th April, 
1898, we took a clutch of five eggs from a nest placed on a 
tree in the valley below Kuatun. These were much incu¬ 
bated. The colour is a pale yellowish or greenish clay, with 
spots and longitudinal splashes of somewhat pale and dull 
reddish brown and reddish grey (underlying). The markings 
on four eggs are concentrated on the large end, where they 
form a well-marked crown or cap, and where the under¬ 
lying splashes are confluent, the rest of the egg being but 
sparsely marked. In the fifth egg there is a broad ring 
round the small end, the rest of the egg, as in the others, 
being but lightly marked. In shape these eggs are ovate, 
inclining to oval, one being almost oval. They measure 
1-27 x 0-93, 1*26 x 0*92, 1-26x0*91, 1*25 X 0-91, and 1*23 x 
0-92 inch. 
