256 FRINGILLID^. 



2. Stromne93, Orkney Is. {R. Dunn). Crowley Bequest. 



.'). Ben Avon, Banffdliire, 370tJ feet, Capt. S. G. Reid & W. R. 

 5tli June. Ogilvie-Grant, E«q. [P.]. 



2. Lapland. Seebolim Coll. 



1. [Lapland.] Crowley Bequest. 



4. Spitsbergen, 24:tli June (Sir II. Seebolim Coll. 

 S. Boynt(m). 



4. Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia, 3rd Seebobm Coll. 



July {Muldendurff). 



5. Yenesei River, Lat. 715° N., June Seebolim Coll. 



{H. Seebolim). 

 4. Yenesei River, Lat.71|°N., June Seebolim Coll. 

 {H.S.). 



3. Yenesei River, Lat. 71|°N., June Seebohm Coll. 



[H. S.). 



Genus CALCARIUS, Bechst. 

 Calcarius lapponicus (Z^ni)i.). 



Emberiza lapponica, Thien. Fort}^flanz. ges. Vog. p. 371, tab. xxxiii. 



fig. 12. a-d (1845-.54) ; Wheelicright, A Spring ^ Summer in 



Lapland, p. 294 (1871); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 131, pi. 1.5 



(1884); id., Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 248, pi. 57. tigs. 11 & 12 



(1896). 

 Plectrophanes lapponicus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 3. fig. 2 (1855- 



63) ; HeuHtion, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 182, pi. xlvi. figs, i & ii 



(IS'-jG) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 253 (1872) ; Baird, Breiver, ^ 



Ridyw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 515 (1874) ; Seebohm ^- Harvie-Brown, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 117; Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 341. 

 Calcarius lapponicus. Nelson, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 183 (1887) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 579 (1888) ; MacFarlane, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 441 (1892) ; Reg, Eier Vog. Mittdeurop. 



p. 295, pi. 38. figs. 22-26 (1900) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. 



p. 373 (1902) ; Newton, Ootheea Wolleyana, pt. ii. p. 451, pi. xi. 



tigs. 19-24 (1902); Jourd. Egqs Europ. Birds, p. 117, pi. 14. 



figs. 22-26 (1906) ; Sharpe, Han'd-l. v. p. 287 (1909). 

 Calcarius lapponicus lapponicus, Ridqw. Birds North .(Sj- Middle Amer. 



i. p. 155 (1901) ; Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 200 (1904). 



Eggs of the Lapland Bunting are of a somewhat narrow and 

 pointed oval shape and moderately glossy. The coloration is very 

 variable. In one type the ground-colour varies from pale grey to 

 pale brown, and is almost completely concealed by confluent clouds 

 and smears of yellowish-brown, liver-brown or dull reddish-brown, 

 over which are to be seen spots, short lines and scrawls of deep 

 chocolate-brown. In another type the ground-colour is decidedly 

 greenish, blotched and clouded with lilac-grey and also marked 

 with spots and scrawls of rich purplish-brown, chiefly at the broad 

 end. In a third type, which appears to be rare, the ground-colour 

 is greenish-grey, and the whole shell is thickly speckled with light 

 greenish-brown. Intermediate forms also occur. They measure 

 from "74 to -9 in length, and from -57 to -68 in breadth. 



