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sparingly marked with small spots and a few irregular lines of deep 

 chocolate-brown. They measure respectively -73 by 59 and '79 

 by -6. 



•2. Amur River (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Emberiza chrysophrys, Pall. 



(Plate XI. figs. 6 & 7.) 



Euiberlza clirysophrvs, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 498 (1888) ; 

 Dresser, 3Ian. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 356 (1902) ; Hartert, Voy. Pal. 

 Faun. pt. ii. p. 189 (1904) ; J(jurd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. 113 (1906 ) ; 

 Hharpe, Iland-l. v. p. 278 (1909). 



Three out of the four eggs of the Yellow-browed Eunting in the 

 Collection are very similar to the eggs in the last-meutioned clutch 

 of E. f acuta, described above. They are of a very broad oval shape 

 and distinctly glossy. The ground-colour is white, clouded with pale 

 lilac-grey, and smudged with pale umber-brown and with irregular 

 lines, dashes, and spots of dark umber-brown. In the fourth egg 

 (tig. 6) the whole surface is heavily clouded with pale umber-brown, 

 the lilac-grey markings being hardly apparent, though the dark 

 mai kings are similar to those in the other three eggs of the clutch. 

 Tliey measure from 'OS to '73 in length, and from '57 to '58 in 

 breadth, 



4. Sidemi, E. Siberia, lOtli June. W. Radcliffe Saundprs, Esq. 



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Emberiza flaviventris (Steph.). 



Emberiza flaviventris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 499 (1888); 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 112 (1899) ; Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, 

 i. p. 184 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 143 (1902); Reichenow, 

 Vog. Afr. iii. p. 284 (1904) ; Haagner ^- Ivy, Jour^i. S. African Orn. 

 Union (2) i. uo. 1, pi. iii. hg. 3 (1907); Sharpe, Sand-l. v. p. 278 

 (1909). 



An egg of the Golden-breasted Bunting is of a rather broad and 

 poimed oval form and very glossy. It is very pale bluish-white, 

 wreathed round the larger end with a tracery of fine irregular 

 lines and markings of dark chocolate-brown and lilac-grey. It 

 measures "79 by "59. 



Stark describes the eggs of this species as being " white thickly 

 marked all over with scrawls and hair-like zigzag lines of verj' 

 dark purplish-brown or black." 



1. Grahamstown, South Africa. A. Haagner & R. H. Ivv, Esqs. 



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