22 The Oologists' Record, March 1, 1923. 



A single egg of Falco alhigularis is approximately 37x30 mm. 

 In general appearance it is like a well-marked, but faded, egg of 

 the European Sparrow Hawk, showing large patches of svibdued 

 purplish under-markings and smaller rufous marks on the surface. 



SOME SCARCE FINCH EGGS. 



By The Editor. 



From Mr. Carlisle we have received some very rare Finch sets, 

 some of them, we think, the only sets known. 



A set of three Kendall's Seed Eater, Anomalospiza imberhis, 

 [Cab.], taken on the Strathmore Ranch near Buluwayo on March 20, 

 1920, are very pale blue with a very few distinct spots, chiefly 

 on the larger half, of dark umber and black. The spots are very 

 small, but it is their sharpness or distinctness which lends such 

 character to the eggs. Approximate measurements 19-5x13, 

 18x13 and 19x13 mm. 



Sets of Sharpe's Seed Eater, Seriniis sharpei, Neiim., and the 

 Rhodesian Streaky-headed Seed Eater, Poliospiza menneUi, Chubb, 

 though rare, do not differ greatly from eggs of other members of 

 this genus. The latter were collected at Thaba N'chu in the 

 Free State. 



We did not expect Mr, Carlisle to send us Emberiza major, 

 but we welcomed a pair collected on his ranch. The species has 

 been already described by Mr. Belcher in our pages, but we would 

 like to add that, on first sight, they appear to be a large edition 

 of the beautiful Emberiza flaviventris, of which, thanks to Mr. 

 Carlisle, we have now a series of nine pairs. If anything, the larger 

 egg, at least in the pair under notice, has fewer hair lines in its 

 wreath of marks and more blotches and spots. 



Perhaps the most interesting eggs from Mr. Carlisle were a three 

 set of Emberiza capensis media, Sharpe, which are so different from 

 any other Bunting's we know. One egg is like one type of the 

 Tawny Pipit, while the other two closely resemble one type of 

 egg of the Calandra Lark. Approximate measurements are 

 22-5 X 16-5, 21-5x16 and 22x17 mm. 



From another source we have secured an egg of the rare Emberiza 

 castaneiceps, Moore, found in the Altai Mountains on June 10, 1910. 

 It measures approximately 20-2x15-8 mm., and closely resembles 

 some types of E. citrinella. On a ground colour, more or less 

 suffused with shell markings, it has a straggly line of scribblings 



