230 FRIXGILLID.i:. 



blurred at the edges and shade oflf into the surrounding ground-colour. 

 Pale violet-grey underlying markings are usually present. They 

 measure from -78 to '83 in length, and from -58 to '6 in breadth. 



4. S.E. Europe. Crowley Bequest. 



5. Orenburg, E. Russia, 20th May. W. Radclifle Saunders, Esq. 



4. Orenburg, 25th May. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



fP.]. 

 2. Astrakhan, tiSth April. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus EMBERIZA, Briss. 

 Emberiza schoeniclus, Linn. 



Emberiza schojnielus, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vo(/. p. 3G9, tab. xxxiii. 



tig. 9, a-c (18J5-54) ; Heivitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 187, 



pi. xlvii. fig. i (1856) ; Seehohvi Sf Harvie-Bruwn, Ibin, 1876, p. 117 ; 



Dresser, Birch Fur. iv. p. 241 (1878) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 339 ; 



id., Brit. Birds, n. p. 13-5, pi. 15 (1884) ; S/iarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xii. p. 480 (1888) ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 248, pi. 57. 



figs. 13 & 14 (1896) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 370 (1902) ; 



Jourd. Eqqs Europ. Birds, p. 113, pi. 14. figs. 2-6 (1906) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. y. p. 276 (1909). 

 Sch(]enicolaarundinacea,^flefM-er, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 3. fig. 4 (1855-63). 

 Schoenicola schceuickis, Rey, Eier Vog. Mitteleurop. p. 292, pi. 38. 



figs. 2-6 (1900). 

 Emberiza schceniclus schoeniclus, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 19 1 



(1904). 



Eggs of the Reed-Bunting are of a broad, pointed oval form and 

 have a considerable amount of gloss. The ground-colour varies from 

 olive-grey to a purplish-clay-colour, and is spotted and more or 

 less covered with a tracery of coarse twisted and knotted lines of a 

 dark purplish-brown colour, almost black at times. These sjjots and 

 lines are frequently blurred at the edges and run into the surrounding 

 ground-colour, and are coarser and more numerous at the larger end 

 of the egg than elsewhere. The underlying markings consist of 

 smaller spots and finer lines of violet-grey. As a rule there is a 

 great uniformity among the eggs of this Bunting, but in one clutch 

 from Tilford, the ground-colour of three of the eggs is pale 

 greenish-blue, while in a fourth it is nearly pure white. The 

 markings consist of spots and blotches of pale violet-grey and 

 brownish-grey, and on three of the eggs there is an irregular black 

 hairline across the broad end, where the markings are most numerous. 

 They measure from •? to 'So in length, and from -54 to -Q in 

 breadth. 



5. Carlisle, Cumberland, 10th May. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 5. Carlisle, June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 5. Near Clunv, Ross-shire, 30th May Seebohm Coll. 

 [Hargiti Coll.). 



