CUCULtJS. 



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1. With 4 eggs of foster-parents, Chiirt, May. Crowley Bequest. 



]. With 6 „ „ Churt, May. CrowJey Bequest. 



1. W^ith 4 ,, „ Churt, June. Crowley Bequest, 



1. AVith nest and 4 ejigs ,, Churt. Crowley Bequest. 



]. With „ 4 ,, Chuit. Crowley Bequest. 



1. With „ 5 ,, Churt. Crowley Bequest. 



Of the common type, with variations. 



Itutioilla ])h(xnicura . 

 1. With 5 eggs of foster-parents, Dorking, Surrey, Purchased. 



29th May. 

 Finland, (3th June. 

 Finland, 20th J une. 

 Huland, 7th July. 

 Valkenswaard, Ilolland, 



28th May (iif. Seebohm 



^ H.XElwes). 

 Braudenburg,12th June. 



Four examples are blue and two of the common type. 

 Saxlcola oenanthe. 



With 5 

 Witli 4 

 With 5 

 With 4 



With 5 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 



With 2 eggs of foster-parents, Hanover, 



2nd June. 



Of the common type. 



Saxicola melanoleuca. 

 With 3 eggs of foster-parents, Parnassus, Greece, 



12th Mav. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Blue, spai'ingly spotted at the broad end with pale lilac, and 

 closely resembling the fosterer's eggs. 



Tharrhaleus modularis. 



1. With nest and 4 eggs of foster-parents, Churt. Crowley Bequest. 

 1. With 3 eggs of foster-parents, Durham, 1st June. Crowley Bequest. 

 1. With 1 „ Cheshire, 24th May {H. Seebohm Coll. 



E. Smith). 

 1. With 1 „ Cheshiie, 24th May {H. 



E. S.).^ 

 1. With 2 ,, Derbyshire. 



1. With 3 ,, Leatlierhead, Surrev, 



29th May. 

 1. With 2 „ Hayward's" Heath, 10th 



May (Sioaysland). 

 1. With 3 „ Churt, June. Crowley Bequest. 



All densely marked eggs of the common type, and in no instance 

 of a blue colour. 



Sylvia nisoria. 



1. With 4 eggs of foster-parents, Berlin, 30th May, Crowley Beque.^t. 



Greyish cream-colour, smeared with greyish yellow and lavender. 



Sylvia curruca. 



]. VN'ith 4 pggs of foster-parents, Churt. Crowley Bequest. 



1. With 3 ,, Brandenburg, 17th May. (.'rowley Bequest. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 W. H. Turle, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



