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3. Cork Wood, Gibraltar, llth May Seebohm Coll. 



(L. H. Irby). 



5. Sandvig, Sundal Fjord, Norway, Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe [P.]. 



May (Nikolai Hanson). 



1. Pomerania, 12th May. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Stolp, Pomerania (T. Holland). Seebohm Coll. 



5. Stolp (T. H.). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Stolp, llth May (T. H.). Seebohm Coll. 



5. Politz, Pomerania (T. H.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Livonia, Baltic Prov., 4th June Seebohm Coll. 



(Russow). 



Livonia, 4th June (Russow}. Seebohm Coll. 



Mt. Olympus, Greece, 21st May Seebohm Coll. 



(T. Eruper). 



Accipiter melanoschistus, Hume. 

 (Plate XI. figs. 2 & 3.) 



Accipiter melanoschistus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 132, note 

 ( 1874) ; Gates ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 123 (1890) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 252 (1899). 



The eggs of the Himalayan Sparrow-Hawk resemble those of 

 A. nisus. The ground-colour is bluish white and the markings are 

 disposed in various ways. In two specimens they are almost 

 entirely confined to a broad but very irregular zone round the 

 larger end. In two others they cover the shell, but are much more 

 dense over the larger than the smaller half. In a fifth example the 

 markings are small, but closely set over the egg, forming a large 

 confluent cap at the smaller end. They measure from 1-62 to 1*77 

 in length, and 1'3 in breadth. 



2. Kotegurh, Himalayas, 28th April Hume Coll. 



(Capt. Blair). 



3. Kotegurh, 29th May (A. O. Hume). Hume Coll. 



Accipiter punicus, Erlanger. 



Accipiter punicus, Erlanger, Orn. MB. v. p. 187 (1897) ; Sharpe) Hand-l. 

 i. p. 252 (1899;. 



The eggs of the Tunisian Sparrow-Hawk in the Collection are 

 similar to many of those of A. nisus. They are pale bluish white, 

 marked, chiefly at the large end, with spots and blotches of yellowish 

 brown and some underlying clouds of pale lavender. They measure 

 respectively : 1-57 by 1-1 ; 1-54 by 1-23 ; 1-7 by 1-15 ; 1-6 by 1-22. 



4. Tunis, 25th May. Crowley Bequest. 



Accipiter velox (Gm.}. 



Accipiter fuscus, Brewer, N. Amer. Ool. pt. i. p. 18, pi. iii. figs. 23, 24 

 (1856) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 135 (1874) ; id. Hand-l. i. 

 p. 252 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 4 (1899). 



Nisus fuscus, Baird. Brewer 8c Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, iii. p. 24 

 (1874). 



