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tion, seems to prove that they are very similar to the common type of 

 egg of Merida menda. They are pale bluish green, speckled and 

 mottled, generally more thickly at one end, with reddish brown and 

 pale lilac. They vary in size from 1'12 to 1"21 in length, and 

 from '80 to -85 in breadth. 



1. Altai Mountains, 2nd May Seebohm CoU. 



( Tancre) . 



2. Altai Mountains, 2nd May Seebohm Coll. 



( Tancre) . 

 5. Altai Mountains, 17th May Crowley Bequest. 



( Tancr6). 



Turdus chrysolaus (Temm.). 

 (Plate VI. figs. 15 & 18.) 



Merula chrysolaus, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 275 (1881) ; id. Birds 

 Japan. Emp. p. 48 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 38 (1899) ; 

 'Sltarpe in Seehohm^s Man. Turdid(e, ii. p. 167 (1902). 



Tuidus chrysolaus, Tacz. Faune Orn. Siher. Orient, p. 313 (1891) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 139 (1903). 



Though variable in ground-colour, the eggs of the Brown Japanese 

 Ouzel in the Collection are of the ordinary Blackbird type. They 

 vary from bluish to dull greenish blue, in the majority of cases 

 marked with minute specks and small streaks of pale rufous brown 

 and lilac, rather dense, and evenly distributed over the shell. In 

 some eggs the markings are brighter in colour, fewer, and larger, 

 being collected together in a more or less irregular cap. The 

 sizes vary from 1'05 to 1'18 in length, by from 'IQ to -85 in 

 breadth. 



Tardus obscurus (Gm.). 



Tardus obscurus, Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 71 (1878) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1879, p. 4 ; Tacz. Faune Orn. Siber. Orient, p. 30G (1891) ; Popham, 

 Ibis, 1898, p. 493; Dresser, Ibis, 1901, p. 445, pi. ix. figs. 5-8; 

 Sharpe, Ha7id-l. iv. p. 140 (1903). 



Merula obscura, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 273 (1881); Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 38 (1899) ; Sharpe in Seebohms Mun. Turdidee, 

 ii. p. 175 (1902). 



In colour and markings the eggs of the Dark Ouzel in the Collec- 

 tion are insejjarable from those of Merula merula, but thej' are 

 considerably smaller. They are bluish green, speckled and mottled 



