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This varies little : most eggs are found at the end of May or early Breeding 

 in June. In the Mediterranean they may be met with from May 22, 

 and about mid June in the high N. Incubation is performed by the 

 hen, and lasts 14 days, while the young remain in the nest about 12 days 

 after hatching. When a second brood is reared the eggs are laid early 

 in July or occasionally as late as the beginning of August. 



Average of 100 eggs (58 by Rey and 42 by the ^vriter), 18.35 X ^^i«««««- 



ments. 



13.83 mm., Max. 21.3 X 14.3 and 19.6 X 15.1, Min. 16.4 x 13.5 and 

 17.1 X 13.2. Bau gives the average of 84 eggs as 18.4 x 13.6 mm. 

 Average weight, 115 mg. (Rey); 133 mg. (Bau). Average weight of 

 9 full eggs, 1.990 g. (N. H. Foster). 



Brown Flycatcher, Mascicapa latirostris Raffl. 



Eggs: J. f. O., 1873, Taf. I, fig. 16. 



Alseonax latirostris (Raffl.). Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, p. 352. 

 M. latirostris Raffl. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 477. 



Breeding Range: E. Siberia to Lake Baikal, Corea, Japan, N. 

 China and the Himalayas as far W. as Chamba, and apparently occa- 

 sionally in India. Has once occurred in Kent (May 21, 1909). C. In- 

 gram (Ibis, 1908, p. 140), describes the nest as a neat, lichen covered 

 cup, usually placed on the horizontal branch of a tree, close to the bole. 

 Eggs, 4 to 6, but usually 5, pale greyish green, occasionally unmarked, 

 but generally very faintly clouded or washed round the obtuse end with 

 light red. In Japan they are laid about the third or fourth week in 

 May, but in June in Siberia. Average size of 6 eggs (Taczanowski), 

 16.7 X 13.5 mm. 



110. Pied Flycatcher, Muscicapa atricapilla L. 

 Geographical Races. 



a. Common Pied Flycatcher, M. atricapilla atricapilla L. 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl. Tab. XXIX, fig. 9, a, b. Hewitson, 

 I. Ed., pi. VIII, fig. 1 ; II Ed., pi. XVI, fig. 2 ; III. Ed., pi. XXI, fig. 2. 

 Baedeker, Tab. 52, fig. 12. Taczanowski, Tab. XLI, fig. 2. Seebohm, 

 Br. Birds, pi. 9; id. Col. Fig. pi. 52. Frohawk, Br. Birds, I, pi. Ill, 

 fig. 110. Dresser, pi. — , fig. 7,8. 



British Local Names: Goldfinch (obs.). Laal Magpie (Cumber- 

 land). Welsh: Owyhedog du a Gwyn. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: Lejsek cernohldvy. Denmark and 

 Norway: Broget Fhiesnapper. Finland: Mustakirjavaparmaalintu. France: 

 Oobe-mouche noir. Germany: Trauer Fliegenf anger. Holland: Zwaart 



