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glossy. The ground-colour is white or very pale bluish-white, 
densely speckled and blotched with pale reddish-brown and 
lavender-grey. The markings sometimes coalesce over the broad 
end of the egg so as to form a cap. They measure from °75 to °8 
in length, and from ‘58 to °59 in breath. 
6. South Africa (Z. LZ. Layard). Crowley Bequest. 
1. South Africa. KE. L. Layard, Esq. [P. ]. 
3. Deelfontein, Cape Colony, 19th Col. A. T. Sloggett | P.]. 
Noy. (LZ. Seimund). 
Fringillaria insularis, Grant 4 Forbes. 
(Plate XI. figs. 20 & 21.) 
Fringillaria insularis, Grant § Forbes, Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. no. 1, p. 2 
(1900); wd. Nat. Host. Sokotra, p. 29 (1903); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 
p- 285 (1909). 
Eggs of the Sokotra Rock-Bunting closely resemble those of 
F, striolata. The ground-colour is greenish-white ; and while in 
one clutch the eggs are very densely mottled and blotched with 
dark brown and lavender-grey, in the second clutch they are densely 
but distinctly speckled with reddish-brown and purplish-grey. Five 
examples measure from ‘7 to °75 in length, and from -51 to ‘55 in 
breadth. 
3. Homhil, E. Sokotra, 1500 feet, Royal Society [P.]. 
24th Jan. (W. R. Ogilvie-Grant 
& H, O. Forbes). 
2. Homhil, 1500 feet, 21st Jan. Royat Society [P.]. 
(W. RB. 0.-G. & H. 0. FF). 
Fringillaria striolata (Licht.). 
(Plate XI. fig. 22.) 
Emberiza striolata, Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 197 (1871); Oates, Fawna 
Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 264 (1890) ; td., ed. Hume, Nests § Eggs 
Ind, Birds, ii. p. 170 (1890) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 344 
(1902). 
Fringillaria striolata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M, xii. p. 561 (1888) ; id., 
Hland-l. v. p. 285 (1909). 
Emberiza striolata striolata, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 191 
(1904). 
The eggs of the Striolated Bunting are of a somewhat narrow oval 
shape and very slightly glossy, They are greyish-white or pale 
bluish-white, very densely freckled and mottled with reddish-brown 
of various shades, dark on some eggs, pale on others. Though 
everywhere dense, the markings are particularly so on the broad 
end, where in some specimens they form a very broad confluent 
zone. The underlying markings consist of blotches and small 
