NUCIFUAGA CARYOCATACTES. 477 



the structure of the nests. In 186G only one nest was found, and that was 

 deserted by the birds after a single egg was laid in it. The four eggs of the 

 first nest in 1864 were most liberally offered to me by the Pastor and his 

 friends : though able to make some return for it, I always regard the gift with 

 the warmest gratitude.] 



[§2595. Foin:—TiYo], "2 April, 1864." From Dr. Bal- 

 damus, 1867.] 



[§ 2596. 77^r^e.— " Oetzthal, Tirol, 18 April, 1864." From 

 Dr. Baldamus, 1867. 



These two sets of eggs, one of them with the nest, were received by me from 

 my good friend, then living at Ilalle in Saxony-, who told me they were of the 

 best quality (" besterhaltinen "), and that one of them had been packed and set 

 aside for me two years before. The eggs are inscribed by him as above, but 

 the dates do not agree with tliose printed by the Ritter von Tschusi- 

 Schmidhofen (Der Tannenlieher u. s. w. p. 12), as furnished to him by the 

 Doctor. Together with these specimens was a second nest and three eggs, 

 inscribed as taken on the 23i'd of March, which he kindly sent for my inspec- 

 tion as being the largest and most abnormally marked that he had seen ; but 

 according to his request I returned them to him. Unfortunately he never gave 

 me any further information (though I asked for it) concerning the specimens I 

 retained, nor am I aware of any other particulars of them being published save 

 those that he communicated to the Ritter (ut supra), whence it would appear 

 that they Avere part of the booty, consisting of five nests and eighteen eggs, 

 procured by a forester (" Revierforster ") named Franz at Schlanders, and that 

 all the nests were built in larch-trees at the height of from 20 to 30 feet. All 

 the eggs submitted to me closely agreed with that which I before had from 

 the Doctor as taken in Transsylvania in 1847 (§ 2592) as well as with the four 

 from Bornholm (§ 2594), while the nests were in all essentials like those I had 

 from that island. In return for the nest and seven eggs which he allowed me 

 to keep, my friend asked me for some exotic eggs, whereupon I sent him about 

 thirtv, belonging to twenty-three species, from Madagascar and Mauritius, with 

 which he expressed his satisfaction.] 



[§ 2597. One. — Hocliaiiger Alp, Styria, 23 March, 1867. 

 From Herr Seidensacher, through Lord Lilford, 1868. 



This is one of four eggs received with the nest from Herr Seidensacher by 

 Lord Lilford, who kindly gave it to me after they had been exhibited, on his 

 behalf, by Mr. Sclater to the Zoological Society (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1807, p. (387). 

 It was then stated that they had been taken in a pine-forest at the elevation 

 of about 3500 feet, and the Ritter vcn Tschusi-Schmidhofen (Der Tannen- 



