GRACULUS. 505 
(1896) ; Newton, Ootheca Wolleyana, pt. ii. p. 471 (1902) ; Dresser, 
Man. Pal. Birds, i. p. 405 (1902); Rey, Ever Vog. Mitteleurop. i. 
p: 369 (1904), pl. 50. figs. 8-11 (1900) ; Whitaker, Birds Tunis. ii. 
p- 7 (1905); Dresser, Eggs Birds Europ, pts. xi. & xii. p. 415, pl. 2. 
figs. 7-9 (1908). 
Fregilus graculus, Loche, Expl. Set. Algér., Ois. i. p. 116 (1867); Hume 
°s Henders. Lahore to Yark, p, 248 (1878). 
Graculus eraculus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M, iii. p. 146 (1877); id., 
Hand-l. y. p. 627 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eversammi. p. 364 (1910). 
Graculus eremita, Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 45 (1889) ; Oates, 
ed. Hume, Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, i p. dl (1889). 
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, Hartert, Vog. pa’. Faun. i. p. 35 (1908) ; 
Jourd. Eqgs Europ. Birds, i. p. 80 pl. 2. figs. 8-11 (1906). 
Eggs of the Chough vary in shape from a broad or regular oval 
to a somewhat pointed oval, and are almost devoid of gloss. ‘The 
ground is white, creamy-white, or pale greenish-white, marked all 
over the shell, sometimes sparingly, sometimes densely, with spots 
and small blotches of umber-brown and lilac-grey of different shades, 
the markings being usually more numerous and rather larger at 
the broad end. 
European eggs vary in length from 1-47 to 1°62, and in breadth 
from 1:01 to 1°16. 
An Algerian egg measures 1°42 by 1. 
The egg laid by the larger Tibetan race, named Fregilus 
himalayanus, Gould, is much larger than any other specimen in 
the Collection and measures 1°74 by 1:2. It does not differ in any 
other respect. 
1. I. of Islay, Inner Hebrides (Har- Seebohm Coll. 
gitt Coll.). 
5. Trwyn-cilan, Carnarvon, 26th W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
April (4. Evans). Bee 
5. Trwyn-cilan, 10th May (£. £.). W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
5. Pembrokeshire. Gould Coll. 
5. Ramsey I., Pembroke, 16th May W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(W. Morgan). deca 
1. Portland Bill, Dorset (Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coil.). 
4. Lulworth, Dorset, May (P. Crowley Bequest. 
Crowley). 
7. Lulworth, June (P. C.). Crowley Bequest. 
3. Lulworth, 29th April. Salvin-Godman Coll. 
4. Lulworth, May. Seebohm Coll. 
1. Rathlin I., Antrim. Seebohm Coll. 
2. Rathlin I. Seebohm Coll. 
3. Rathlin [., 22nd April. Seebohm Coll. 
2% The- Bre one Wicklow, 14th Seebohm Coll. 
May (H. Saunders). 
4, Waterford, 28th April (R&. J. Seebohm Coll. 
Ussher), 
4. Waterford, 4th May (2. J U.). Seebohm Coll. 
5. Waterford, 6th May (2. J. U.). Seebohm Coll. 
4, Cappoquin, Waterford (2. J. U.). Seebohm Coll. 
