PICA. ATT 
Mitteleurop. i. p. 373, pl. 52. figs. 1-10 (1900) ; Jourd. Eggs Europ. 
Birds +i. pe Vis pk 8, figs. 1- 10 (1906) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 604 
(1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p- 359 (1910). 
Pica pica pica, Hartert, Vog. pal. Faun. i. p. 19 (1903). 
Eggs of the Common Magpie are generally of a regular oval 
shape, but some specimens are more elongate and somewhat 
compressed towards the smaller end. They are distinctly glossy. 
The ground is almost invariably pale green or greenish-white, 
occasionally pale bluish-white, and is usually marked all over the 
shell with spots and small blotches of umber-brown, or dark brown 
and pale lavender-grey. The markings vary a good deal in size, 
being very small and numerous in some examples and larger and 
fewer in others; while in some they obscure the greater part of 
the ground. In one rather peculiar clutch from Alton the ground 
is of rather bright a olive-green, and the markings are mostly 
concentrated at the larger end, forming a dark cap. The markings 
are occasionally most numerous at the smaller end. hey vary in 
length from 1°22 to 1:47, and in breadth from ‘92 to 1-0. 
4. Castle Eden, Durham, May (2. Crowley Bequest. 
B. Tristram), 
7. Cumberland, 6th April. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(LP. i. 
3. Cambridge. F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 
Be Madingley, Cambridgeshire, 19th Salvin-Godman Coll, 
May (O. S.). 
2, Coton, Cambridgeshire, 11th May Salvin-Godman Coll. 
(O'S). 
5. Middlesex (Porter). Seebohm Coll. 
5. Middlesex (Porter). Seebohm Coll. 
4. Finchley, Middlesex (O. S.}. Salvin-Godman Coll. 
6. New Forest, Hants, 24th April. W. Kadceliffe $ 
BRets 
4, Alton, Hants, April (2. Andrews). Crowley Bequest. 
3. Alton, May (Z. A.). Crowley Bequest. 
7. Dorsetshire, 29th March (R. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Walhs). all: 
5. Penzance, Cornwall, 27th May W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(H. Booth). eas 
5. Porsanger Fiord, Norway, 19th Seebohm Coll. 
June (72. S). 
4, Christiansund, Norway, May (2. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 
Hanson). 
2, Sweden. S. O. Sahlin, Esq. 'P.}. 
5. Valkenswaard, Holland, 20th May Seebohm Coll. 
(H. S.). 
4. Valkenswaard, 23rd May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 
3. Valkenswaard. Salvin-Godman Coll, 
3. Pomerania,26th April( 7. Holland). Seebohm Coll. 
7. Petchora, N. Russia, lat. 66°, 18th. Seebohm Coll. 
May CH: S.). 
5. Petchora, lat. 66°, 6th June (H.S.). Seebohm Coll. 
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Parnassus, Greece, 12th May Seebohm Coll. 
CEES. § T. Kriiper). 
