PRATINCOLA. 



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indistinct zone or cap. In size (hc-y vary from 7 to -SI in length 

 and from -55 to -6 in breadth. ' 



Near Inverness {E. Haryitt). 



Cambridgeshire. 



Tiiplow, Berkshire. 



Iladdenham, Bucks, 22nd May. 



Haddeuham, 28th May. 



New Forest {H. Saunders). 



Finchley Common. 



Churt, Surrey. 



Churt. 



Brigliton, May (JR. B. Sharpe). 



Brighton, May (Stvaysland). 



Brighton, May. 



France (Noury : Haryitt Coll.). 



Pomerania {T. Holland). 



Eeval, Baltic Provs. (Eussotv). 



Seehohm Coll. 



F. Bond, Esq. rp.l 



Gould Coll. 



Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Seehohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe [P.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seehohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Pratincola rubicola (Linn.). 



Saxicola rubicola, Thien. Fortpfianz. yes. Voy. p. 236, tab. xxiii 

 hg. 7, a, b,_ e (1845-54) ; Heicitson, Eyys of Brit. Birds, i. p. 107, 

 pi. XXX. fag. 1 (1856). '^ ' 



Pratincola rubicola, ^aefMer, J:?6t £?<r. Fo>. tab. 27 fin- 12(185.5-6.3)- 

 Salmn, Ibis, 18o9, p. 307 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 263, part (1873) • 



t^^'l-f^L-^^'f ^- ^-j^- P- ^^'5 (l^^y) 5 Seebohm, Brit. Birds i. 

 p. 317 (18b3) ; id. Eyys of Brit. Birds, p. 191, pi. 51. fig. 16 (1896) • 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 171 (1903). o v ; , 



The eggs of the Stonechat are of the same type as those of the 

 VV hinchat, but the ground-colour is of a paler greenish blue, and the 

 spotting IS frequently very dense. The Collection contains no plain 

 eggs ; all the examples are marked in varying degrees with pale 

 chestnut. In some there are merely a few faint specks and smears- 

 m the majority the markings consist of specks, spots, and small 

 blotches, very thickly disposed over the broader end, nearly always 

 in the form of a conspicuous cap or zone. They measure from -05 

 to -To m length, and from -oo to -6 in breadth. 



Co. Waterford, 13th April (E. J. 



Usshcr). 

 Co. Waterford, 13th April (B. J. U.). 

 Co. ^^■atel•ford, 24th April (R. J. U.). 

 Co. Waterford, .5th Mav (B. J. U.). 

 Co. Waterford, 19th May (i?.j; U.). 

 Cherry Hiutou, Cambridgeshire, 



28th May (O. Salvin). 

 Hampstead Heath (O. S.). 

 Brighton Race-com'se (F. Bond ■ 



Haryitt Coll.). 

 Brigliton Ilace-course [F. B. : 



Haryitt Coll.). 

 Brighton (7/. Saunders). 

 Brighton, May (B. B. Sharpe). 

 Brighton, May (R. B. S.). 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



