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pt. i. p. 358 (1902) ; Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 182 (1904) ; 

 Jourd. Eqgs Europ. liircls, p. 108, pi. 13. fig3, 21,22 (190G) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 281 (19U9). 



Eggs of C'retx8chmai-'s Banting vary from a rather broad to a 

 very broad oval form, and have a moderate amount of gloss. 

 The ground-colour is greyish-white, with sometimes a tinge of 

 pink or brownish-pink, marked all over with spots, scratches, and 

 small blotches of deep chocolate-brown and some faint grey under- 

 lying smears. They measure from '69 to '8 in length, and from 

 •55 to '62 in breadth. 



2. Parnassus, Greece, 6th May {H. Seebohm Coll. 



Seehohvi 4" T. Kriiper). 



3. Parnassus, 7th May {H. S. ^ Seebohm Coll. 



T. K.). 



3. Parnassus, 20th April (T. K.). W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



4. Athens, Greece. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 2. Kedesh Napthali, Palestine, 11th Crowley Bequest. 

 May (H. B. Tristram). 



2. Mount Carmel, Palestine, 22nd Crowley Bequest. 



April [H. B. T.). 



3. Safed, Palestine, 19th May {U. Crowley Bequest. 



B. T.). 



Emberiza stewarti, Blyih. 



Emberiza stewarti, Wardlaxv-Ramsay , Ibis, 1880, p. 64 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. xii. p. 547 (1868) ; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. 

 p. 256 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eyys Ind. Birds, ii. p. 167 

 (1890); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 113 (1899) ; Dresser, Man. Fal. 

 Birds, pt. i. p. 367 (1902) ; id.. Ibis, 1904, p. 110, pi. iii. fig-. 14; 

 Hartert, Voq. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 179 (1904) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. \. 

 p. 281 (1909). 



The eggs of the White-capped Bunting are of a regular oval 

 form and moderately glossy. The ground-colour is white, tinged 

 with blue or grey, and thickly mottled with purplish-grey, over 

 which are scattered many spots and blotches of very deep reddish- 

 or purplish-brown. Both the grey underlying and the brown 

 surface-markings are very evenly spread over the entire shell, and 

 there is no tendency whatever to the formation of a cap at the 

 broad end. Specimens measure from '7 to "8 in length, and from 

 •57 to '61 in breadth. 



4. Afghanistan, 28th May (i?. O. Seebohm Coll. 



Wardlaw-Ramsaij) . 

 4. Afghanistan, 28th May [R. O. Seebohm CoU. 



W.-R.). 

 1. Kashmir, 18th June (C R. Cock). Hume Coll. 

 1. Kashmir, 4th July (C. R. C). Hume Coll. 



