274 MUSCICAPA LUTEOLA. TURDUS MERULA. 



MUSCICAPA LUTEOLA, Pallas. 

 [§1187. Two. — Daunria. From Dr. Taczanowski, 1889. 



Kindly sent to me as a genuine example of the eggs of this species, which, 

 as Dr. Dybowski remarks (Journ. f. Ornith. 1872, p. 450), much resemble those 

 of Ridicilla suecica in colour, but are considerably smaller in size, though larger 

 than that represented in illustration of his paper (op. cit. 1873, tab. ii. fig. 18). 

 However, nearly all the eggs there figured seem to me to be drawn on a reduced 

 scale. (Cy. §1156.)] 



PYCNONOTUS BARBATUS (Desfontaines). 



[§ 1188. One. — Algeria. From Captain Loche, through Mr. 

 Salvin, 1861.] 



PYCNONOTUS XANTHOPYG^US (Hemprich & Ehrenberg). 



[§ 1189. 0?ze.— Elisha's Fountain, 13 April, 1864. From 

 Mr. Tristram. 



Mr. Tristram's note is : — " In a Zizt/phus-tvee ; three eggs, slightly sat on. 

 Nest cup-shaped, very neat, and not shallow like I.rus obscurus. In the thicket 

 at Elisha's Fountain, Jericho, 13 April." A fuller description of the nest, 

 as well as of the eggs, is in ' The Ibis' for 1865 (pp. 81, 82).] 



TURDUS MERULA, Linnaeus. 

 BLACKBIRD. 



§ 1190. 77^r^e.— England? In or before 1843. 



§ 1191. 7^o?/r.— Milton, Cambridgeshire, May 1844. 



Found in a nest in an apple-tree. Ilarvey^s boy Isaac thought 

 they were Mistletoe-Thrush's^ or he would not have taken them. 

 No one to whom I have shewn them ever saw Blackbirds' eggs like 

 them. The nest in which they were does not diifer from an ordinary 



