SYLVIIDAE. 



the spots which lie deeper dominate, and the second in which those 

 spots only occur sparingly and are of small size; the character of 

 the last mentioned type shows much resemblance to that of arundi- 

 naceus-eggs. 



In ^British Birds" (Vol. II, p. 185) P. F. Bunyard says that 

 palustris-eggs of the Continent appear to him to be smaller and 

 more pointed than the British eggs, which as regards the size 

 Norman Gillroy holds to be certain (1. c. p. 235). 



LOCUSTELLA LUSCINIOIDES (Savi). 



It appears from the Catalogue *) of Wolley's Collection (now 

 in the Zoological Museum of Cambridge University) that this species 

 was formerly also indigenous in Schouwen (Zeeland), where it was 

 found breeding near Zierikzee (13th June 1857); further also at 

 Waabru (sic), Netherlands (20th May 1858), by which, I suspect, 

 Woubrugge (Zuid-Holland) must have been meant; and finally also 

 near Ouderkerk (without indication of the Province). 



In the above mentioned Collection there is an aberrant egg (the 

 other ones of the set were perfectly alike in character) which on 

 account of its particularly dark brown and also exceptionally large spots 

 is described as ,,most abnormal in colouring" (Holland, s.l., about 1858). 



It is not clear to me why Yarrell 2 ) considers Thienemann's 3 ) 

 statement that he possessed luscinioides-eggs from the Thuringian 

 bogs, which were perfectly similar to eggs found by the latter in 

 Holland (near Rotterdam), is open to objection. 



x ) Ootheca Wolleyana, edited by Alfred Newton. (London, 1864—1907). 

 Part II, p. 326. 



-) A history of British Birds, by William Yarrell. (4th. e d. London, 

 1871—1885). Vol. I, pag. 395, 1st. note. 



8 ) 1. c. p. 202, note. 



