255 



1. Khifaii M'Sakta, 24th April (O. .S'.; Crowley Bequest. 



Tridram Coll.). 



4. Djeiuleli, Algeria, 14tli May. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Altai Mountains, 27tii May. Crowley Bequest. 



Buteo buteo {Linn.). 



Falco buteo, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xlvi. fig. 2, a-d (1845-54). 



Buteo vulgaris, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 41. fig. 1 (1855-68); 

 Hewitsun, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 38, pi. xiv. figs, i, ii (1856); 

 Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 63; Sliarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 186 

 (1874); Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 449 (1875) ; Seelolnn, Brit. Birds, 

 i. p. 117, pi. 5 (1883) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 16, pi. 3. fig. 2 

 (1896). 



Buteo buteo, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 256 (1899). 



The eggs of the Common Buzzard are chiefly of a regular oval 

 shape, but many are elliptical and others are spheroidal. The shell 

 is coarse in texture and generally without gloss. The ground- 

 colour varies from white to bluish white and from cream-colour to 

 pinkish white. Many eggs are i)lain or very feebly marked, but 

 the majority are blotched, streaked and spotted, and also clouded, 

 with various shades of brown, reddish brown, and underlying neutral 

 tint or lilac. Some specimens are marked with confluent blotches 

 of rather rich reddish brown, others are covered with large smears of 

 brownish pink, and others again are spotted and otherwise marked 

 over one half of the shell, the other half being comparatively free 

 from markings. A series of specimens measures from 2 to 2*4 in 

 length, and from 1-0-5 to 1-9 in breadth. 



3. Glen Shiel, Inverness-shire (Har- Seebohm Coll. 



gitt Coll.). 



2. Near Glenelg, Inverness-shire (i?f/r- Seebohm Coll. 



gitt Coll.). 



2. Ross-shire, May (Hargitt Coll.). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Balniacara, Eoss-shire {Harqitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 



3. Dorrisduan, Boss-shire, 1st Mav Seebohm Coll. 



{Hargitt Coll.). 



5. ( 'uuiberland. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Cumberland ( ir. Proctor). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Cumberland, 10th .June {Harqitt Seebohm Coll. 



^ Coll.). 



2. Keswick, Cumberland, 5th May. Crowley Bequest. 

 2. Crumniock ^^'atwr, Cumberland, Seebohm Coll. 



10th April {H. Saunders). 



1. Crumniock "Water, 8th .June (.ff. iS.). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Near Buttermere, Cumberland. Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Langdale, Westmoreland. Seebohm Coll. 



3. l:iew Foivat {Hargitt Coll.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. New Forest, April. Seebohm Coll. 



2. New Forest. Crowley Bequest. 

 16. Foret de Bord, Flbeuf, France, Seebohm Coll. 



April (Noil?-)/: Hargitt Coll.). 



