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tion, seems to prove that they are very similar to the common type of 

 egg of Merula merula. They are pale bluish green, speckled and 

 mottled, generally more thickly at one end, with reddish brown and 

 pale lilac. They vary in size from 1*12 to 1*21 in length, and 

 from -80 to -85 in breadth. 



Turdus chrysolaus (Temm.). 

 (Plate VI. figs. 15 & 18.) 



Merula chrysolaus, Seebohm, Cat. Birch B. M. v. p. 275 (1881) ; id. Birds 

 Japan. Emp. p. 48 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eicrsamml. p. 38 (1899) ; 

 Sharpe in Seebohm 1 s Mon. Turdidce, ii. p. 167 (1902). 



Turdus chrysolaus, Tacz. Faune Orn. Siber. Orient, p. 313 (1891) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 139 (1903). 



Though variable in ground-colour, the eggs of the Brown Japanese 

 Ouzel in the Collection are of the ordinary Blackhird type. They 

 vary from bluish to dull greenish blue, in the majority of cases 

 marked with minute specks and small streaks of pale rufous brown 

 and lilac, rather dense, and evenly distributed over the shell. In 

 some eggs the markings are brighter in colour, fewer, and larger, 

 being collected together in a more or less irregular cap. The 

 sizes vary from P05 to 1*18 in length, by from "76 to # 85 in 

 breadth. 



2. Japan (H. Fryer). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Japan (H. P.). Seehohni Coll. 



3. Japan (H. P.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Japan (II. P.). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Japan, 23rd June. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Hondo, Japan, 28th May. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Fuji, Japan, 29th June. W. Radclitfe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Tardus obscurus (Om.). 



Turdus obscurus, Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 71 (1878) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1879, p. 4; Tacz. Faune Orn. Siber. Orient, p. 306(1891) ; Popham, 

 Ibis, 1898, p. 493; Dresser, Ibis, 1901, p. 445, pi. ix. figs. 5-8; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 140 (1903). 



Merula obscura, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 273 (1881) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 38 (1899) ; Sharpe in Seebohiris Mon. Turdidce, 

 ii. p. 175 (1902). 



In colour and markings the eggs of the Dark Ouzel in the Collec- 

 tion are inseparable from those of Merula merula, but they are 

 considerably smaller. They are bluish green, speckled and mottled 



