iy? FRINGILLID&. 
2. Medellin, Antioquia, U.S. Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 
(7. K. Salmon). 
2. Medellin (Zristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 
6. Venezuela. Crowley Bequest. 
2. Venezuela (Nehrkorn Coll: Tris- Crowley Bequest. 
tram Coll.). 
Genus FRINGILLA, Linn. 
Fringilla teydea, Webb § Berth. 
(Plate X. fig. 16.) 
ee teydea, Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 25 (1878) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
BV xi. p. 120 (1888) ; Gomez, Ibis, 1889, p. 260; Meade- Waldo, 
Ibis, 1889, p. 517 ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 810 (1902) ; 
Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 129 (1904) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 
p- 225 (1908). 
ae eggs of the Teydean Chaffinch are of a rather long pointed 
oval shape and slightly glossy. They are pale blue, spotted and 
blotched at the larger end with dark chocolate-brown and pale 
purplish-grey. They measure respectively ‘95 by *65 and :95 
by °62. 
2, The Peak, 6000 ft., Tenerife, 25th W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
June (Lt. v. Thanner). (Pi: 
Fringilla celebs, Linn. 
Fringilla ccelebs, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 410, tab, xxxvi. fig. 5, 
a-e (1845-54) ; Baedeker, Ever Eur. Vog. tab. xii. fig. 3 (1855-63) ; 
Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, 3 i. p. 192, pl. xlix. fig. a (1856); 
Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 5 (1873) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, il. p. 100, 
pl. 13 (1884); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 171 (1888) ; See- 
bohm, Tiggs of Brit. Birds, p. 243, pl. 56. figs, 19 & 20 (1896); Rey, 
Eier Vog. Mitteleurop. p. 328, pl. 39. figs. 1-8 (1900) ; Dresser, 
Man. Pal. Birds, pt.i. p. 306 (1902) ; Jourd. Liqgs Europ. Birds, 
p. 82, pl. 10. figs. 1-8 (1906) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 225 (1908). 
Fringilla ccelebs celebs, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. i. p. 125 (1904). 
The eggs of the Chaftinch are typically of a broad oval form, and 
possess a moderate amount of gloss. They are of many types 
of coloration. In the commonest, the ground-colour is pale 
purplish-grey suffused with soft clouds of pale rufous, especially at 
the broad end, where the markings are, as a rule, most numerous. 
These consist of spots of various sizes, and occasionally of short 
crooked lines of deep chocolate-brown, the edges being blurred and 
merging into the surrounding rufous clouds. 
In a second type, the egg is pale bluish-green, the large end 
covered with a cap of faint rufous and marked with a few tiny 
dots and spots of dark sas 
in a third type, the egg is pale bluish-green, either plain or 
marked with a few minute ee 
In a fourth type, the egg is pale bluish-green marked, mostly at 

