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 IV. — Two eggs, apparently laid hy the same bird, taken at Delamere, Cheshire. 



These are pale grey eggs with brown spots. The general impression is 

 that of a very uniform lightish coloration, i.e. the speckling is very evenly 

 distributed. The two eggs are remarkably alike and cannot be distinguished. 

 There are two kinds of foster in this case also. 



V. — Three eggs, apparently laid hy the same bird, taken at 



These show a most marked resemblance to each other. Colour is 

 greyish-blue with brown speckling evenly distributed. There are a few 

 darker spots of brown, very small but sharply defined. The three eggs 

 cannot be distinguished save by these spots, which are of course not 

 identical in size or numbers. It is noteworthy, notwithstanding the prob- 

 ability of their being the product of the same bird, that each occurred in 

 the nest of a separate species of foster. The collector states that "all of 

 the three eggs were found close to where water was in abundance, both 

 stagnant pools and running." 



The ground hue of these eggs is of a bluish-grey, with brown speckling 

 fairly thickly distributed. The colour contrasts quite noticeably with that 

 of the next set, which was taken in the same region but over a wider 

 area, and all, with one exception, in the following year. With the exception 



