28 Messrs. Bucknill ai^d Gronvold o?i J^ggs of 



— also similarly distributed — a number of small and minute 

 spots of the above colours, though the ground-colour is still 

 left quite conspicuous. 



The shell is rather smooth and the surface somewhat 

 glossy : shape oval. 



Sizes: 27-0 X 21-7; 25-7 x 21'9 ; 27-Gx21'Gmm. 



PoLiOHiERAX SEMITORQUATUS (A. Sm.). Pigniy Falcon. 

 (PL II. % 2.) 



The egg figured is a single specimen taken on the 15th 

 October, 1905, at Wolmaranstad, in the Transvaal, by Mr. 

 Austin Roberts. It is now in the collection of the Transvaal 

 Museum at Pretoria. 



This specimen was shortly described by Mr. Bucknill in 

 this Journal (October 1908, p. 9(5), but the egg does not 

 appear to have been previously known or figured. 



The effs is of an uniform whitish-cream colour, with some 

 very faint buffish-cream blotches on the obtuse end (which 

 are very probably nest-stains). 



The shell is finely granulated and the surface dull : shape 

 oval. 



Size : 28-0 x 22-9 mm. 



Amydrus morio (L.). Pcd-vvingod Starling. (PI. II. 

 fig. 3.) 



The effof figured is one of a clutch of three taken in a 

 krantz at Worsthill, near Grahamstown, Cape Colony, by 

 Mr. Bertram E. Jupp, on October 25th, 1902. Mr. Jupp's 

 collection is at prasent in the possession of the South 

 Kensington Natural History Museum. The egg of this 

 species is, of course, well known^ but has not been hitherto 

 satisfactorily figured. In this Journal (October 1908, pp. 74, 

 75) Mr. Bucknill described several clutches from Natal and 

 Cape Colony. 



The eggs of this species vary a good deal in shape, and 

 the specimen figured belongs to the somewhat extremely 

 elongated type which is not uncommon. 



The eggs of this species do not vary much in colour or 

 markings, and the subjoined description of the specimen 



