o2S LOCUSTELLA N.flVIA. 



late Mr. John Baker of Cambi'idge, who in his four collecting visits to the 

 Netherlands procured, and nearl}' always personall}', no fewer than eighteen 

 ne.sls of this bird (c/. Yarrell, British Birds, ed. 4, i. p. 394).] 



[^ 1(305. 0/;^.— Holland. From Mr. A. F. Sealy, 1893. 



This is another egg of Mr. Baker's taking, given to me at the same time. 

 It is most abnormal in colouring, being much freckled, spotted, or even blotched 

 with a deep brown, much deeper than that often seen collected as a "cap" 

 round the big end of eggs of this species. At first sight it might almost be 

 taken for a deeply marked egg of Hirundo rustica, but there is no orange tinge 

 in the spotting. Mr. Baker assured me that the other eggs, three or four, in 

 the nest were of the same character. He sold them to several people, and I 

 believe the late Mr. Bond had one if not two of them. The nest was of the 

 unmistakable build of that of Savi's Warbler. Details of its capture are 

 unfortunately lott ; but soon after it came into my possession I took it to 

 Mr. Baker, Avho, though he had not seen it for some thirty-five years, at once 

 recognized it, and repeated his statement exactly as I had heard it of old 

 lime.] 



LOCUSTELLA N^VIA (Boddaert). 

 GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. 



§1606. Oy^6^— [England.] From Mr. Yarrell, 26 January, 1846. 



Mr. Yarrell showed me several well-authenticated specimens, all 

 of which differed somewhat from one another. 



§ 1607. O^e.— [England ?] From Mr. J. P. Wilmot, 12 

 February, 1846. 



[I have great doubt whether this, though small, may not rather be an egg of 

 Potamodus hiscinioides. Mr. Wilmot's manuscript Catalogue unfortunately 

 throws no light on its origin.] 



§ 1608. Nine.—Fe\iwQ\\ Fen. From Mr. John Baker, 1852. 



I bought these eggs, 2 July, of Mr. Baker, of Cambridge, who 

 brought them to my rooms in Paddington. He had several dozens of 

 them, and 1 could not resist the opportunity of making a selection. 

 Most of them were more uniformly coloured than those I have picked 

 out. He liad them of a man at Poppylot in Feltwell Fen, in Norfolk, 

 who gets them by following up the run of the bird to its nest. 



