MOTACILLA. 
4. Dalston, Cumberland, 27th May Crowley Bequest. 
(Heysham: Tristram Coll.). 
3. Hen Moss, Cumberland (Hey- Crowley Bequest. 
sham: Tristram Coll.). 
6. Near Scarborough, May. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
[P.} 
5. Cambridgeshire. I. Bond, Esq. [ P.]. 
5. Cambridgeshire. F. Bond, Esq. [P.|. 
4. Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, 14th Salvin-Godman Coll. 
May. 
2. Sparham, Norfolk, 4th June (/. Seebohm Coll, 
Norgate). 
6. Wortham Common, Suffolk, 22nd W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
May (J. G. Tuck). peas 
5. Chesterton, Oxfordshire, 16th Salvin-Godman Coll. 
May. 
5. Finchley, Middlesex, Salvin-Godman Coll. 
1. Churt, Surrey, Crowley Bequest. 
5. Alton, Hants. Crowley Bequest. 
74. Avington, Hants. Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe [P.]. 
6, East Fleet, Weymouth, Dorset, W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
dth June. [PEs 
Clutches containing an egg of the Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). 
2. Aldbury, Tring, Herts, 15th May W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
CHE S:): Beek 
5. Reigate, Surrey, 11th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(Eel 
4, Shipton, Oxfordshire, 4th June W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(Rk. W. Calvertt). (Ps). 
2. Nr. Monmouth, 13th May (W. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
hey S 2): Bal: 
3. Nr. Monmouth, 20th May (W. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
Eto.) 1 eal A 
Motacilla alba, Linn. 
(Plate IV. fig. 16.) 
Motacilla alba, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxv. fig. 1,a-c (1845-54) ; 
Baedeker, Fier Eur, Vog. tab. 35. fig. 12 (1855- 63) ; Hewitson, Eggs 
of Brit. "Birds, j tap L6o;, ple xli, figs, i & iv (1856) ; Dresser, 
Birds Eur. iii. p. 238 (1875) ; Seebohm § Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 1876, 
p- 125; Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 348; zd., Brit. Birds, 1. p. 199, pl. 14 
(1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Be M. x. p. 464 (1885) ; piste Eggs 
of Brit. Birds, a 260, pl. 58. figs. 19 & 20 (1896); D resser, Man. 
Pal. Birds, pt. 1. 200 (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 137 (1906). 
Motacilla alba alba, geese Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 802 (1905). 
The majority of the eggs of the White Wagtail very closely 
resemble those of the Pied Wagtail, but the ground-colour is more 
generally of a decided bluish tinge. Some specimens, however, 
differ in having the markings coarser and of an olive-brown colour. 
A single specimen in the Collection (fig. 16) is almost unmarked 
except at the broad end, where there is a dense sooty-black cap, 
