230 FRINGILLID®. 
blurred at the edges and shade off into the surrounding ground-colour. 
Pale violet-grey underlying markings are usually present. They 
measure from ‘78 to °83 in length, and from °58 to °6 in breadth. 
4, S.E. Europe. Crowley Bequest. 
5. Orenburg, E. Russia, 20th May. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
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4, Orenburg, 25th May. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
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2. Astrakhan, 28th April. Crowley Bequest. 
Genus EMBERIZA, Briss. 
Emberiza scheniclus, Linn. 
Emberiza scheniclus, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Voy. p. 369, tab. xxxiii. 
fig. 9, a-e (1845-54); Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 187, 
pl. xlvii. fig. i (1856) ; Seebohm § Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 1876, p. 117 ; 
Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 241 (1878) ; Seebohm, This, 1878, p. 339 ; 
ad., Brit. Birds, ii. p. 185, pl. 15 (1884); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 
xii. p. 480 (1888) ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 248, pl. 57. 
figs. 13 & 14 (1896) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 370 (1902) ; 
Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. 118, pl. 14. figs. 2-6 (1906) ; Sharpe, 
Hand-l. y. p. 276 (1909). 
Schoenicola arundinacea, Baedeker, Kier Eur. Vog. tab. 3. fig. 4 (1855-63). 
Scheenicola schceniclus, Rey, Ever Vog. Mitteleurop. p. 292, pl. 38. 
figs. 2-6 (1900). 
Emberiza schceniclus schceniclus, Hartert, Vig. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 194 
(1904). 
Eggs of the Reed-Bunting are of a broad, pointed oval form and 
havea considerable amount of gloss. The ground-colour varies from 
olive-grey to a purplish-clay-colour, and is spotted and more or 
less covered with a tracery of coarse twisted and knotted lines of a 
dark purplish-brown colour, almost black at times. These spots and 
lines are frequently blurred at the edges and run into the surrounding 
ground-colour, and are coarser and more numerous at the larger end 
of the egg than elsewhere. The underlying markings consist of 
smaller spots and finer lines of violet-grey. As a rule there is a 
great uniformity among the eggs of this Bunting, but in one clutch 
from Tilford, the ground-colour of three of the eggs is pale 
greenish-blue, while in a fourth it is nearly pure white. The 
markings consist of spots and blotches of pale violet-grey and 
brownish-grey, and on three of the eggs there is an irregular black 
hairline across the broad end, where the markings are most numerous. 
They measure from °7 to ‘85 in length, and from °54 to -6 in 
breadth, 
Carlisle, Cumberland, 10th May. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
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Carlisle, June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
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Near Cluny, Ross-shire, 830th May Seebohm Coll. 
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