170 BUNTING 



are also occasionally discovered under the shelter of coarse 

 herbage on the furze - covered downs. I am not aware of 

 any eggs that vary to a greater extent ; at times they differ 

 but slightly from those of the Yellow - Hammer, while 

 clutches may now and then be seen blotched and scrawled 

 in every conceivable manner with a rich red-brown. Eggs 

 taken in the east of Sussex, I remarked in several instances, 

 both in shape and colouring, bore but a very slight resem- 

 blance to those procured to the west of Brighton." 



