200 



fRINGILLlD^. 



Mittelcurop. p. S07, pi. 42. figs. 11-20 (1900) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. 

 £ rch, pt. i. p. 293 (ly02) [part.] : Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. 94, 

 pi. 12. tigs. 11-20 (1904) ; Sharpe, H.and-1. v. p. 245 (1909). 

 Passer montana montana, Harterf, Vdff. Pal. Eaun. pt. ii. p. 160 

 (1904). 



The eggs of the Tree-Sparrow vary in shape from a pointed to a 

 blunt oval and have a moderate amount of gloss. The ground- 

 colour is white, greyish-white or pale bluish-white, speckled and 

 spotted, blotched, smeared or streaked, in some eggs sparingly but 

 in the majority densely, with vai-yiug shades of brown and violet- 

 grey. These markings are generally densest and darkest at the 

 broad end, where they often form a cap or broad zone. In this, 

 as in other Sparrows' eggs, a clutch seldom consists entirely of eggs 

 quite of one type, one specimen generally differing markedly from 

 the others in the distribution and density of the markings. The 

 eggs taken bj' Swinhoe in Amoy are extremely varied in colour, 

 the most remarkable type being a white egg with a dense rufous 

 cap at the broad end. 



Eggs of the Tree-Sparrow measure from "7 to '86 in length, and 

 from -48 to '6 in breadth. 



5 St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, 7th 

 June (J. S. E.). 



4. Cluny, luyerness-shire. 



5. England. 



4. "Wilstrop, Yorkshire, May. 

 4. Wilstrop, 22nd May. 



3. Cheshire (jF. ^'ic/io'lson : Hargitt 



Coll.). 



4. Crewe, Cheshire. 



4. Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, 4th 

 July (C. Beech). 



4. Cambridgeshire. 



6. Cambridgeshire. 



5. C^ambridgeshire. 



4. Cambridgeshire [F. Bond). 



4. Cambridge. 



5. Waterbeacb,Cambridge,9tb May 



(O. S.). 

 5. Welney, Cambridge, 21st May 

 ( W. Farren). 



5. Upware, Cambridge, 13th May 



(O. S.). 

 4. Harrow, Middlesex, 11th June 

 {H. T. Booth). 



6. Gravenev, Faversham, Kent, 29th 



May (il. T. B.). 



4. Clav," Hythe, Kent, 16th May 

 (6. S.). 



4, Vosges, France {Mougel: Har- 

 gitt Coll.). 



3. Elbeuf, Normandy {Noury : 



Hargitt Coll.). 



4. 'EAhmi (Nonry : Hargitt Coll). 



5. Yalkenswaard, Holland, 12th 



Mav {H. S.). 



J. Steele Elliott, Esq. [P.]. 



Seebnhm Coll. 

 Old Collection. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebolim Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 



W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 F. Bond, Esq. 1 P.]. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



;P.]. 

 W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Seebohm CoU. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



