EMBERIZA. 245 
pt. i. p. 358 (1902) ; Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 182 (1904) ; 
Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. 108, pl. 18. figs. 21, 22 (1906) ; Sharpe, 
Hand-l, y. p. 281 (1909). 
Eggs of Cretzschmar’s Bunting vary from a rather broad to a 
very broad oval form, and have a moderate amount of gloss. 
The ground-colour is greyish-white, with sometimes a tinge of 
pink or brownish-pink, marked all over with spots, scratches, and 
small blotches of deep chocolate-brown and some faint grey under- 
lying smears. They measure from ‘69 to ‘8 in length, and from 
05 to *62 in breadth. 
2. Parnassus, Greece, 6th May (4, Seebohm Coll. 
Seebohm § T. Kriiper). 
3. Parnassus, 7th May (Z. S. & Seebohm Coll, 
Tare 
3. Parnassus, 20th April (7. K.). W. Radcliffe Saunders, Haq. 
eas 
4. Athens, Greece. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(Hea 
2, Kedesh Napthali, Palestine, 11th = Crowley Bequest. 
May (1. B. Tristram). 
2. Mount Carmel, Palestine, 22nd Crowley Bequest. 
April (i, By T.). 
3. 
Safed, Palestine, 19th May (ZH. Crowley Bequest. 
Bek): 
Emberiza stewarti, Blyth. 
Emberiza stewarti, Wardlaw-Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 64; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds B, M. xii. p. 647 (1888); Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. 
p- 256 (1890) ; ed, ed. Hume, Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 167 
(1890); Nehrk. Kat. Eversammi. p. 113 (1899) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. 
Birds, pt. 1. p. 367 (1902) ; 2d., Lbis, 1904, p. 110, pl. iii. fig. 14; 
Hartert, Vog. Pal. aun. pt. ii. p. 179 (1904); Sharpe, Hand-l, vy. 
p- 281 (1909). 
The eggs of the White-capped Bunting are of a regular oval 
form and moderately glossy. The ground-colour is white, tinged 
with blue or grey, and thickly mottled with purplish-grey, over 
which are scattered many spots and blotches of very deep reddish- 
or purplish-brown. Both the grey underlying and the brown 
surface-markings are very evenly spread over the entire shell, and 
there is no tendency whatever to the formation of a cap at the 
broad end. Specimens measure from °*7 to ‘8 in length, and from 
*O7 to ‘61 in breadth. 
4, Afghanistan, 28th May (2&. G. Seebohm Coll. 
Wardlaw- Ramsay). 
4, Afghanistan, 28th May (R. G. Seebohm Coll. 
We-R.): 
1. Kashmir, 18th June (C. R. Cock), Hume Coll. 
1. Kashmir, 4th July (C. R. C.), Hume Coll. 
