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EOCK THEUSH. 



PLATE CII. FIG. II. 



Turdus saxatilis, TEMMIKCK. 



Petrocincla saxatilis, VIGORS. GOULD. 



THE nest is said to be made of moss. It is placed in crevices of 

 rocks, whether those which have fallen down from their primeval 

 resting-place, or those that still abide in the place of their hoar antiquity. 



The eggs are described as being four or thereabouts in number, and 

 of a greenish blue colour, without spots. 



J. R. De Capel Wise, Esq., of Lincoln College, Oxford, has forwarded 

 me an egg, and Edwin Cottingham, Esq. drawings of two specimens, 

 copied from the original eggs in the museum of J. Malcolm, Esq., 

 Lamorbey, Halfway- Street, near Bexley, Kent, by his permission. These 

 eggs have a beautiful glossy shell, and each of them a clear uniform 

 tint of colour without spots or marks of any kind; the lightest coloured 

 variety is a trifle larger than the darkest, and not so pure and positive 

 in colour, being of a neutral tone between a light grey and a very slight 

 approach to a light bluish green. 



