216 



si'LViin.i:. 



with olive-brown, yellowish brown, and underlying pale lavender. 

 Many specimens of this type are also spotted with deep umbcr- 

 brown. In anothertype the ground-colour is salmon-pink, smudg< d 

 and clouded with darker pink and grey and marked with spots and 

 lines of rich reddish brown. In a third type the shell is white, 

 prettily blotched and speckled with chestnut and pale lavender. 

 Comparatively few eggs of the Blackcap exhibit any well-defined 

 cap or zone at the larger end, the markings being generally evenly 

 distributed over the whole shell. They measure from "7 to \ s 7 in 

 length, and from *5G to "6 in breadth. 



■I. Shropshire, 29th .May. 



1 . Cambridgesh i re. 



4. Cambridgeshire. 



4. Histon, Cambridge. 



3. Bristol, 19th May. 



3. Avington, Hampshire, May (JR. B. 



Sharpe: Hargitt Coll:). 



4. Alton, Hampshire, June. 



3. Finchley, Middlesex (/>. Salviri). 



4. Finchley (O. S.). 



4. Hampstead, Middlesex (O. S.). 

 c>. Stanmore, Middlesex {Hargitt Coll.). 

 6. ('hurt. Surrey. 



5. Churt, May. 



1. Maidstone, Kent (Hargitt Coll.). 



4. VosgesMts., France (Noury: Hargitt 



Cull.). 



5. Elbeuf, Normandy (Noury: Hargitt 



Coll.). 



5. Elbeuf, 1st May (Noury: Hargitt 

 Coll.). 



<'.. Elbeuf (Noury: Wargitt Coll.). 



5. Malaga, Spain, 28th -May (II. Saun- 

 ders : Hargitt < 'oil. ). 



4. Malaga, 31st May. 



5. Pomerania, 26th May ( T. Holland). 



3. Pomerania, 29th -May {T. II.). 



0. Pomerania, 4th June ( T. II.). 

 5. Pomerania, 8th June (T. II.). 



4. Pomerania, 10th June (T. II.). 

 •I. Pomerania, 12th June (T. II.). 

 3. Pomerania, 13th June ( T. //.). 



3. Pomerania, b'ith June | T. 11. i. 

 .'!. Fayal, Azores, June ( F. D.Godman)'. 



4. Tenerife, Canary Islands, 19th 



March. 



2. Mustapha, Algeria. May (II. B. 



Tristram). 



1. Lake Halloula, Algeria, June 



( //. II. T.). 



Sylvia suhalpina, Temm. 



Sylvia passerina, Thien. Fortpfianz. ges. Vbg. p. L83, tab. x\. fig. !>, a, h 



(1845-64). 

 Stoparola suhalpina, Baedeker, Bier Bur. Vog. tab. 51. fig. 7 (1855 63). 



Gould Coll. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Br. .). A. Norton [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Salvin-Godman ( 'oil. 

 Salvin-< rodman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 ( !rowley Bequest. 

 ( Jrowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Si ebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm < 'oil. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm ( 'oil. 



Seebohm ( 'oil. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm < loll. 



Seebohm ( loll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm ( 'oil. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm ( loll. 



Salvin-Godman ( loll. 



E. G. Meade-Waldo, I. i. 



[P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



