250 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vii. 



J. M. Goodall has two sets. Mr. W. Eagle Clarke has also 

 recorded a red set from Foula, and a nest from the Isle of 

 Wight, which was supposed at the time to be that of the 

 Grasshopper- Warbler, probably belonged to this species. 

 There is also a set from Dorset in Mr, H. Massey's collec- 

 tion, and R. J. Ussher's collection in the Dublin National 

 Museum contains two sets from co. Kerry (see Zoologist, 1844, 

 p. 638 : Morey, Guide to Nat. Hist, of /. Wight p. 502). 



Yellow Wagtail [Motacilla f. rayi). — The late F. Bond 

 possessed a clutch from Fresh^^ater with one pink egg. 



Blue-headed Wagtail {M. f. flava). — Kricheldorff states 

 that red eggs are \Qvy rare {Zeitsch. f. OoL, XIIL, p. 11). 



Grey Wagtail {M. b. boarula). — The variety with creamj^ 

 ground and light rufous markings (resembling some types 

 of Robin's eggs) has been taken in Germany, according 

 to Dr. E. Rey^ and Mr. E. W. H. Blagg took a clutch of 

 this description in Staffordshire in 1904.* 



White Wagtail {M. a. alba). — The late Dr. O. Ottosson 

 had a red clutch of eggs taken in Iceland in 1879, which is 

 now in the Swedisli National Museum. Seebohm describes 

 {Brit. Birds, Vol. 11. , p. 201) a type from his own collection 

 as being : " dull white in ground colour, thickly marbled, 

 splashed, and spotted over the entire surface A\ith reddish- 

 brown, and pale brown." 



[Although the true erj^thristic type is not known to occur 

 in the Lessee, Grey Shrike {Lanius minor), some clutches 

 show a tendenc}^ in that direction, and G. Krause figures 

 a set with a creanw ground and bro\\'n and violet markings, 

 in his Oologia Universalis Palcearctira.] 



Woodchat-Shrike {Lanius s. senator). — Red egss are 

 rare in this species, but Kriclieldorff has received several 

 sets from soutJi Spain, \A'liere L. collurio does not breed. 

 The Britisli Museum contains four sets with salmon-pink 

 ground and cliesnut and purple-grey markings, from Greece 

 and Asia ^Minor (Seebolnn. Col. Fig., pi. 54) ; Mr. H. Massey 

 has a set from Switzerland, and tlie red type has also 

 occurred in Algeria (H. B. Tristram). 



CoRSiCAN Woodchat-Shrike {L. s. badius). — The late 

 John A\lutehead found one clutch of salmon-pink eggs 

 out of some twenty nests examined., and F. C. R. Jourdain 

 obtained a couple of sets m Corsica in 1900. 



* The erj^thristic type also occurs in the eggs of the Asiatic Grey 

 ^Vagtail {M. b. melanope), according to Taczanowski {Faime Orn. 

 Sib. Orient., p. 375). A pink egg taken by W. E. Brooks in Kashmir 

 is in the British Museum. 



