40 The OotOgists' Record^ Jii7ie i, 1921. 



Hogue, 1864, and presented to me by Mr. Broughton. A. D. 

 Bartlett." 



The &^g measures 178 by i-i6 inches, and in general appearance 

 suggests a dwarf wood-pigeon's. In 1865, Professor Newton stated 

 the colour to be greenish-grey ; such at any rate is no longer the case, 

 the entire surface now being dull white, faintly glossed like that of a 

 Dipper ; there is none of the polish characteristic of our native pigeon 

 eggs. The specimen is well blown, with a single hole in the side, the 

 aperture being so large as to suggest a somewhat advanced embryo, 

 while numerous nest stains and also the dullness of the shell suggest 

 at least some attempt at incubation ; the bird, one recollects, 

 had a companion — perhaps a mate- — while under Dr. Bennett's 

 care at Sydne}-. Be this as it may, the specimen remains an interest- 

 ing memento of the middle of the last century, a valuable and 

 characteristic souvenir of two famous Victorian naturalists. 



FURTHER OOLOGICAL NOTES FROM SPAIN. 



By Captain W. Maitland Congreve, M.C, M.B.O.U. 



I am afraid my experience of Savi's Warbler, Locustella luscin- 

 oides (Savi) is somewhat limited, but I have once had the good 

 fortune to meet with this bird in its breeding haunts, and I spent 

 a morning looking for nests. They appear to be extremely local 

 and one does not meet with them necessarily in swampy ground 

 just anywhere in Spain. The place where I met with them breeding 

 is the same as that described by the late Colonel Irby in his " Ornitho- 

 logy of the Straits of Gibraltar," and there, I should say, they are 

 common, but so intensely dense is the great area of matted cutting- 

 sedge that one can make no approximation as to whether they are 

 really common or not. One occasionally sees a bird darting across 

 an opening or sitting on a rush or sedge as it reels out its monotonous 

 song and of course they can be heard, but the note, like that of the 

 Grasshopper Warbler, Locustella naevia {Bodd.), is not a powerful 

 one, and it is necessary to have a windless day in order to hear it 

 clearly, and then it is well-nigh impossible to tell exactly from what 

 spot it emanates. It was on 14th May, that I hunted for nests of 

 these elusive birds. Hunting for them, it may be said, is almost 

 as bad as hunting for the proverbial " needle in a haystack," and 



