236 FRINGILLID ®. 
Emberiza melanocephala, Scop. 
Emberiza melanocephala, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Voy. p. 360, tab. xxxiil. 
fie. 3, a-c (1845-54); Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 151 (1872); Bree, 
Birds Eur. 2nd ed. iii. p. 133, pl. (1875); Seebohm,, Brit. Birds, 
ii. p. 165, pl. 15 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 503 (1888) ; 
Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 261 (1890) ; Seebohm, Eggs 
of Brit. Birds, p. 254, pl. 58. figs. 6 & 7 (1896); Dresser, Man. Pal. 
Birds, pt. i. p. 546 (1902); Hartert, Voy. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 170 
(1904); Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p.101, pl. 14. figs. 12-15 (1906) ; 
Sharpe, Handa-l. v. p. 279 (1909). 
Euspiza melanocephala, Baedeker, Kier Eur. Vog. tab. 3. fig. 9 (1855-63) ; 
Rey, Eier Voy. Mitteleurop. p. 298, pl. 38. tigs. 12-16 (1900). 
The eggs of the Black-headed Bunting vary in shape from a broad 
to an excessively long narrow oval and are moderately glossy. 
They are very pale greenish-blue, varying somewhat in shade, 
speckled and spotted all over with dull reddish-brown and under- 
lying lavender-grey, the markings being more dense at the larger 
end. On some eggs the spots are large and might almost be termed 
blotches ; on others they are all fine; while sometimes both large 
and small markings are combined on the same specimen. The eggs 
vary greatly in size, measuring from -82 to 1:03 in length, and 
from °6 to ‘7 in breadth. 
4. Montenegro, 15th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
1. Dalmatia. Dr. Thienemann. 
5. Greece (7. Kriiper). Crowley Bequest. 
4, Greece (7. K.). Crowley Bequest. 
4, Missolonghi, Greece, 3rd June Crowley Bequest. 
(W. H. Simpson: Tristram 
Coll.). 
1. Attica, Greece, 20th May (7. K.). Seebohm Coll. 
2. Attica, 27th May (7. K.). Seebohm Coll. 
1. Attica, lst June (7. K.). Seebohm Coll. 
4, Attica, Ist June (7. K.). Crowley Bequest. 
4. Attica, 4th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
BAB 
3. Skopelos I., Greece, Ist June. W. THhdcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
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Skopelos I., Ist June. 
Parnassus, Greece, May (H. See- 
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Parnassus, 19th May (H. 8. 
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Parnassus, 21st May (#. S.). 
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