BESSORNIS GUTTURALIS. ERITIIACUS RUBECULA. 31 o 



BESSORNIS GUTTURALIS (Guerin). 



[§ 1473. Ttvo.—Burno\a, Anatolia, 7 May, 1864. From Dr. 

 Kriiper, through Herr Seidensacher, 1865. 



These from the first nest found (with five eggs) by Dr. Kriiper, as recorded 

 by him in the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie ' for 1869 (pp. 43, 44). He there 

 states that he shot the hen bird from the nest, and sent two of the eggs (which 

 are the subjects of the present note) to Ilei-r Seidensacher. In the course of 

 the next month Canon Tristram obtained a nest of this species on Mount 

 Lebanon (Ibis, 1867, p. 91). His observations, and those of Dr. Kriiper, are 

 reprinted at some length by Mr. Dresser (Birds of Europe, ii. pp. 348 -.351), but 

 he has accidentally stated that Dr. Kriiper's discovery was made in 1867, instead 

 of 1864. That the year last named is correct is confirmed by the extract 

 from his manuscript quoted by Dr. Ilartlaub (Griechische Jahreszeiten, 1875, 

 Heft iii. p. 235), to say nothing of the fact that these eggs came into my 

 possession in 1865. Mr. Dresser says that another egg from the same nest is in 

 the collection of Dr. Rey. ] 



ERITHACUS RUBECULA (Linnjeus). 

 REDBREAST. 



^ 1474, One.— Beeston, Nottinghamshire. " C. W." 



A white variety taken by my brother Charles, who saw the olil bird 

 on the nest in the garden. 



§ 1475. Fow.— Before 1844. 



^ 1476. One.—IS^G. From Mr. A. D. Bartlett, 1847. 

 From a nest in which was a Cuckow's egg [§ 710]. 



[§ 1477. y'M-o.— Elvedeii, 1846. From different nests.] 



[§ 1478. Two,— Ehede\^, 1848.] 



[^479. O/^e.— Elveden, 1849.] 



[^ 1480. Ofie.—'Fvom Mr. Saville, 1850.] 



[^ 1481. 0/^t'.— Blo-Nortoii, Norfolk. From Mr. C. H. 

 Browne, 1851.] 



