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running almost all round the centre of the egg, and another wisp 

 of such lines running up over the large end. Nehrkorn, who had 

 an egg from the Baikal District, dismisses it as " like E. cia," 

 but we have only one set in a large series of E. cia where the colour 

 of the markings is the same and the character of the markings is 

 different from our E. cia. From the same source, we had a set 

 of Emberiza cia par, taken in Tianshan on May 3, 1908, one of 

 which has a wonderful zone of markings round the centre of the 

 egg and the large end quite clear. 



The California Academy of Sciences at San Francisco was so 

 good as to let us have a set of the very rare marked type of Leu- 

 costicte griseiniicha from St. George Island, Alaska. It is a beauti- 

 fully prepared set of five, and though the light-brown markings 

 are very indistinct, we are exceedingly pleased to have this one 

 set of marked eggs in a genus whose eggs, throughout the old and 

 new worlds, are uniformly pure white. The Academy was also 

 able to spare us two sets of Geospiza fuliginosa and one set of 

 Geospiza fortis, both, of course, from the Galapagos. These eggs 

 have been fully described elsewhere. 



We acquired an exceptionally fine pair of Perissospiza icteroides 

 from Mr. Hopwood's collection. Though typical in all other respects, 

 they were unique as to size, and measure approximately29-30 x20-30 

 and 30-30 X 20- 15 mm. 



Only a coloured plate would do justice to a set of five Emberiza 

 citrinella received from Germany. They have lilac under-markings, 

 but they all have wonderful large blotches of warm reddish chestnut 

 colour of varying intensity and, here and there, a straggly black 

 scrawl. With all this, however, they coiild never be taken for 

 any other species. 



The above additions, with others, have carried our collection 

 to over 300 species of Finches. 



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