CTANECULA. 



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are of a pale greenish white, thickly spotted and mottled with 

 more or less dull and ding}' chestnut-brown and lavender, but 

 little ground-colour being visible in some specimens ; the markings 

 often collect into a confluent cap at the broad end. They measure 

 from -68 to *8 in length, and from -54 to "61 in breadth. 



6. Himalayas. 



2. Dharmsala, Himalayas, 20th May. 

 1. Dharmsala ( W. E. Brooks : Tris- 

 tram Coll.). 



3. Kuatun, Fokkien, Cbina, 7th May. 



4. Kuatun, 7th May. 



1. Kuatun, 20th April (J. I). La T). 



3. Kuatun, 21st April (J. D. La T.). 



4. Kuatun, 22nd April (J. I). La T.). 



2. Kuatun, 20tk May (J. D. LaT.). 

 6. Kuatun, June {J. D. La T.). 



2. Foochow, 3rd May. 



2. Fohkien Province, May. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



J. D. La Toucke, Esq. [P.]. 

 J. D. La Toucke, Esq. [P.]. 



C. B. Rickett, Esq. 

 C. B. Rickett, Esq. 

 C. B. Rickett, Esq. 

 C. B. Rickett, Esq. 

 C. B. Rickett, Esq. 

 C. B. Rickett, Esq. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



P.]. 

 P.]. 

 P.]. 

 P.]. 



;p-j. 

 p-j. 



Genus CYANECULA, Brelim. 



Cyanecula suecica (Linn.). 



Sylvia suecica, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vbg. tab. xxii. fig. 7, a-c (1845-54) ; 



Wheelwright, Spring fy Summer in Lapl. p. 286 (1871). 

 Cyanecula suecica, Baedeker, JEier Eur. Vbg. tab. 27. fig. 7 (1855-63) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 317 (1874) ; Seebohm §■ Harvie-Brown, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 125 ; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 99 (1890) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 153 (1903). 

 Pkoenicura suecica, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 102, pi. xxix. 



fig. i (1856). 

 Erithacus cseruleculus, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 308 (1881) ; 



Nehrk. Eat. Eiersamml. p. 39 (1899). 

 Erithacus suecica, Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 269, pi. 9 (1883) : id. Egos 



of Brit. Birds, p. 184, pi. 51. figs. 6 & 7 (1896). 



The eggs of the Red-spotted Blue-throat may be described as 

 small forms of the bluish-green type of those of the Nigktingale. 

 The ground-colour is greenish blue, frequently with a dull olive 

 tinge, and while some specimens are nearly uniformly of this cokmr, 

 the majority are distinctly speckled with rufous. They measure 

 from -65 to "8 in length, and from -55 to - 57 in breadth. 



Swedish Lapland (J. Wolley : Crowley Bequest 



Tristram Coll.). 

 Lapland, 19th June. 

 Lapland (A. Newton). 

 Lapland (T. Holland). 

 Stockkolm, June (Tristram Coll.). 

 Petckora River, Lat. 67^° N., June 



(H. Seebohm §• J. A. Harvie-Brown) 

 Petchora River, Lat. 68° N., 25th 



June (H. S. $ J. A. H.-B.). 

 Petchora River, Lat. 67 i° N., 4th 



July {H. S. §J. A. H.-B.). 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



