EGGS OF THE BIRDS DESCRIBED 
a 
PLATE XXXIV (NATURAL SIZES). 
GREENFINCH LINNET 
White with pale purplish red Chalky white or tinged 
spots at larger end blue, spotted light reddisk- 
brown and purplish-red— 
Spots sometimes very few 
or none 
YELLOWHAMMER RED-BACKED SHRIKE SKYLARK PiED WAGTAIL 
Purplish-white, streaked Pale green, pale buff, pale Greyish-white, Pale bluish spotted 
and veined reddish, salmon, or cream, spotted spotted and greyish brown 
purple and violet grey and blotched reddish-brown clouded dark 
and purplish-grey greenish-brown 
Jay MAGPIE MissEL THRUSH 
Pale greyish-green, speckled Pale bluish-green, freckled Ground colour variable, from bluish- 
and spotted palefolive- olive-brown and faintly white to reddish-brown, variously 
brown blotched ash spotted and blotched with purple, 
brown, and grey 
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