288 TURDUS MUSICUP. 



[§ 1287. Tioo. — Elveden, 1849. From different nests.] 



[^ 1288. Nine. — Elveden, 1851. Erom seven nests.] 



[§ 1289. Two. — Elveden, 1852. Erom different nests.] 



[§ 1290. 0;<(?.— Elveden, 1853.] 



[§ 1291. One.—YLoQkwoU, Norfolk. From Mr. Newcome, 

 1853. 



This very singular-looking Qg^ was taken many years ago by Mr. Newcome 

 when a boy. Its ground-colour is perfectly white, without the slightest tinge 

 of blue or green, and it has some markings of dull red, chiefly towards the 

 smaller end. Mr. Newcome had some half dozen similar to it, two or three 

 of which I saw, and has told me that for several seasons a Song-Thrush built 

 in the garden at Hockwold Hall, which always laid eggs of this appearance. 

 He frequently saw the bird on the nest.] 



[^ 1292. One. — Kyro, Kemi Lappmark, 1855. 



One of four eggs brought to Muoniovara, 11th August, 1855, when I was 

 there.] 



[§ 1293. i^o^^f.— Elveden, 1856. "E. N."] 



[\ 1294. ^k;o.— Elveden, 1857. " E. N." From two nests.] 



[§ 1295. 0/^e.— Elveden, 16 April, 1859. "A. & E. N."] 



[§ 1296. i^o?/r.— Stoke, Bucks., May, 1861. From Mr. Charles 

 Wolley. 



Sent to me by Mr. Charles Wolley (now WoUey-Dod), to whom they were 

 represented as being Golden Oriole's eggs ; but I at once saw that they were 

 Song-Thrush's of the same variety as the eggs which Mr. Newcome used to 

 take (§1291 ), and on enquiry it came out that they were found in a nest exactly 

 like that commonly built by the Song-Thrush. They were recorded how- 

 ever, in ' The Field ' newspaper (No. 439, vol. svii. p. 451) of 2oth May, 

 1861, as being eggs of the Golden Oriole !] 



