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brown, oclire, or reddish brown, and underlying lavender or lilac. 

 The markings consist of specks, spots, and blotclies in various 

 combinations, and the most frequent ty]>es are shown by the 

 specimens figured (Plate VII. figs, l-o). The eggs of the different 

 species of Swallows laying the same type of egg (plain or spotted) 

 cannot be separated from each other. 



Hirundo rustica, Linn. 



Ilirundo rustica, Thien .Forfpjlanz. ges. Voy. tab. xlii. fig. 11, a-e (1845—54) ; 

 Baedeker, Eier Eur. Viir/. tab. 52. fig. 17 (1855-63) ; Heicitson, Ecjys 

 of Brit. Birds, i. p. 257, pi. Ixv. figs, iii & iv (1S56) ; Dresser, Birds 

 Eur. iii. p. 477 (1875) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 171, pi. 17 

 (1884V. Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 128 (1885); id.^- Wyatt, 

 Mon. Kirundinidm, i. p. 213 (1885-94); Oates ed. Hume, Nests Sf 

 Et/ffs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 184 (1890) ; Seebohm, Eygs of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 269, pi. 58 a. figs. 17 & 20 (1896) ; Sharj)e, Hand-l. iii. p. 192 

 (1901). 



Hirundo cabirica, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, p. 361. 



The eggs of the Chimney-Swallow are of the spotted type. They 

 measure from -7 to '9 in length, and from '5 to -58 in breadth. 



4. England. 

 4. England. 



4. England. 



5. Sparham, Norfolk, 20th May 



(i^ Norqate). 

 5. Sparham, 8th June {F. X). 

 5. Cambridgeshire. 

 4. Cambridgeshire. 



4. Cambridgeshire. 



5. Denham, Suffolk, 25th May. 

 5. Taunton, Somerset, June. 



4. Houusdown, Hants, July (C. B. 



Wharton: Hargitt Coll.). 

 4. Hounsdowo, July (C. B. W.: 



Hargitt Coll.). 



4. Finchlev, Middlesex (O. S.). 



3. Finchlev (0. -S-.). 



5. Croydon, Surrey, 16th May. 

 5. Churt, Surrey, llth July. 



5. Tilford, Surrey. 



4. Eeval, Baltic Provs., June {Russow). 



3. Athens, 1st June (7'. Kriiper). 



4. Athens, 1st June (T.^.). 

 4. Delphi, 5th Juue \T. A'.). 

 4. Erzeroum, May. 



1. Palestine (H. B. Tristram). 



2. Pahstiue, 1st June (//. B. T.). 

 2. Bashau, 5th May (//. B. T.). 

 2. Ctesarea Philippi, 9Lh Mav 



(H. B. T.). 

 4. Caesarea Pbilippi, 12th May 



(//. B. T.). 

 8. Jask, Persian Gulf, 25th Feb. 



(.4. E. Butler). 

 2. Jask, loth March (A. E. B.). 



Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.l 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll, 



Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman CoU, 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Zool. Soc. of London. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



