HUTEO. 



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1. Khifan M'Sakta, 24th April (O. S.: Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.}. 



4. Djendeli, Algeria, 14th May. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Altai Mountains, 27th May. Crowley Bequest. 



Buteo buteo (Linn.}. 



Falco buteo, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xlvi. fig. 2, a-d (1845-54). 



Buteo vulgaris, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 41. fig. 1 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 38, pi. xiv. figs, i, ii (1856) ; 

 Sounders, Ibis, 1871, p. 63; Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 186 

 (1874); Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 449 (1875) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, 

 i. p. 117, pi. 5 (1883) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 16, pi. 3. fig. 2 

 (1896). 



Buteo buteo, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 256 (1899). 



The eggs of the Common Buzzard are chiefly of a regular oval 

 shape, but many are elliptical and others are spheroidal. The shell 

 is coarse in texture and generally without gloss. The ground- 

 colour varies from white to bluish white and from cream-colour to 

 pinkish white. Many eggs are plain or very feebly marked, but 

 the majority are blotched, streaked and spotted, and also clouded, 

 with various shades of brown, reddish brown, and underlying neutral 

 tint or lilac. Some specimens are marked with confluent blotches 

 of rather rich reddish brown, others are covered witb large smears of 

 brownish pink, and others again are spotted and otherwise marked 

 over one half of the shell, the other half being comparatively free 

 from markings. A series of specimens measures from 2 to 2-4 in 

 length, and from T65 to 1-9 in breadth. 



3. Glen Shiel, Inverness-shire (Har- Seebohm Coll. 



gift Coll.). 



2. Near Glenelg, Inverness-shire (Har- Seebohm Coll. 



ffitt Coll.). 



2. Ross-shire, May (Hargitt Coll.). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Balmacara, Ross-shire (Hargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.}. 



3. Dorrisduan, Ross-shire, 1st May Seebohm Coll. 



(Hargitt Coll.). 



5. Cumberland. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Cumberland ( W. Proctor). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Cumberland, 10th June (Hargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 



2. Keswick, Cumberland, 5th May. Crowley Bequest. 

 2. Crummock Water, Cumberland, Seebohm Coll. 



10th April (H. Sounders). 



1. Crummock Water, 8th June (H. S}. Seebohm Coll. 



2. Near Buttermere, Cumberland. Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Langdale, Westmoreland. Seebohm Coll. 



3. New Forest (Hargitt Coll.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. New Forest, April. Seebohm Coll. 



2. New Forest. Crowley Bequest. 

 16. Foret de Bord, Elbeuf, France, Seebohm Coll. 



April (Noury: Hargitt Coll.). 



