TURDUS OBSCURUS. T. ILIACUS. 289 



[§ 1297. Five.— Leek, Donegal, 11 April, 1863. "R. H." 

 Erom Mr. Robert Harvey. 



Mr. Harvey writes : — " A nestfid, taken by myself from a laurel in the 

 shrubbery, Leek Glebe.''] 



[§ 1298. Five.— Priory Hill, St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, 20 

 May, 1864. From Mr. Rowley.] 



[§ 1299. J'/z;^.— Norfolk, 9 May, 1869. " F. N." From Mr. 

 Norgate, 1874.] 



[^ l.SOO. i^/z'^.— Sparham, Norfolk, Jmie, 1875. From Mr. 



Norgate.] 



[§ 1301. 0;?^.— Bloxworth, Dorset, 20 May, 1876. '* E. N."] 



TURDUS OBSCURUS, Gmelin. 



[^ 1302. 'Two. — Damiria. From Dr. Dybowski, through M. 

 Jules Verreaux, 1873. 



Dr. Dvbowski has detcribed the breeding-habits and eggs of this species in 

 the 'Journal fiir Oruithologie ' for 1872 (p. 441).] 



TURDUS ILIACUS, Linnseus. 



REDWING. 



[It may appear strange to living oologists that up to the time of Mr.WoUey's 

 departure for Lapland in 1853, not a little doubt was entertained, by some of 

 those who thought they had the best means of knowing, as to the coloration of 

 the Redwing's egg. It had been described by authorities of repute as resem- 

 bling that of the Song-Thrush. Faber seems not to have seen it in Iceland, 

 or his testimony would, of course, have been at once accepted; nor was 

 Thienemann, who passed the summer of 1821 in that island, more successful, 

 though in 1826 a nest with three eggs was sent to him thence. One of these 

 he forthwith figured in his ' Fortpflanzung der Vogel Europa's ' (p. 17, tab. v. 

 fio-. 12); but his works — that just named and also his ' Reisen im Nordeu 

 Europa's,' wherein (ii. p. 168) the fact was also mentioned — received Uttle 

 notice from British ornithologists. Even the evidence of Mr. Proctor and of 



