172 FEI>'GILLID.l!;. 



2. Medellin, Antioquia, U.S. Colombia Salviu-Godman Coll. 



( T. K. iSalmon). 



2. 'MM^nllm {Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



6. Venezuela. Crowley Bequest. 



2. \enez\\e\&, {Nehrkorn Coll: Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram Coll.). 



Genus FRINGILLA, Linn. 



Fringilla teydea, Webb 4' Berth. 

 (Plate X. fig. 16.) 



Fringilla tevdea. Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 25 (1873) : Skarpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xii. p. 170 (1888) ; Gomez, Ibis, 1889, p. 260 ; Meade- Waldo, 

 Ibis, 1889, p. 517 ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 310 (1902) ; 

 Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 129 (1904) ; Sharjie, Hand-l. v. 

 p. 225 (1908). 



Two eggs of the Teydean Chaffinch are of a rather long pointed 

 oval shape and slightly glossy. They are j'^ile blue, spotted and 

 blotched at the larger end with dark chocolate-brown and pale 

 purplish-grey. They measure respectively '95 by "tJS and "95 

 by -62. 



2. The Peak, 6000 ft., Tenerife, 25th W. Radclifte Saunders, Esq. 

 June {R, V. Thanner). [-P-J- 



Fringilla ccelebs, Linn. 



Fringilla ccelebs, Thien. Fortjrflanz. r/es. Viif/. p. 410, tab. xxxvi. fig. 5, 

 a-e (1845-54) ; Baedeker, Fier Eur. Vog. tab. xii. fig. o (1855-63) ; 

 Heioitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 192, pi. xlix. fig. i (1856) ; 

 Di-esser, Birds Fur. iv. p. 3 (1873) ; Seehohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 100, 



. nl. 13 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 171 (1888) ; See- 

 bohm. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 243, pi. 56. figs, 19 & 20 (1896) ; Reij, 

 Fier Tog. Mitteleurop. p. 328, pi. 39. figa. 1-8 (1900); Dresser, 

 Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 306 (1902) ; Jourd. Eq//s Europ. Birds, 

 p. 82, pi. 10. figs. 1-8 (1906j ; Shar2)e, Hand-l. v. p. 225 (lyos). 



Fringilla ccelebs cculebs, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 125 (^1904). 



The eggs of the Chaffinch are typically of a broad oval form, and 

 possess a moderate amount of gloss. They are of many types 

 of coloration. In the commonest, the ground-colour is pale 

 purplish-grey sufi'used with soft clouds of pale rufous, especially at 

 the broad end, where the markings are, as a rule, most numerous. 

 These consist of spots of various sizes, and occasionally of short 

 crooked lines of deep chocolate-brown, the edges being blurred and 

 merging into the surrounding rufous clouds. 



In a second type, the egg is pale bluish-green, the large end 

 covered with a cap of faint rufous and marked with a few tiny 

 dots and spots of dark brown. 



In a third type, the egg is pale bluish-green, either plain or 

 marked with a few minute specks. 



In a fourth type, the egg is pale bluish-green marked, mostly at 



