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blotched, clouded, mottled, streaked, pen-lined, spotted or speckled 

 with various shades of brown and red, from a pale buffy-brown to 

 purple, and from blood-red to earth-brown. Many of the eggs are 

 excessively handsome, having the boldest hieroglyphics, blotched in 

 blood-red, on a clear white or pale green ground. Others again are 

 covered with delicate markings, as if etched on them with a crow- 

 quill ; but no doubt the markings in the majority are more or less 

 smudgy, and but dingily coloured. In some few the ground-colour 

 is a dull mottled purple, clouded over with deeper shades of purplish- 

 brown." 



Milvus milvus (Linn.). 



Falco railvus, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xlv. fig. 4, a-d (184554). 

 Milvus regalis, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 18. fig. 1 (1855-63) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 183; Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 290: Sounder s t 



Ibis, 1871, p. 63; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 74, pi.' 5 (1883); 



Kocyan, Zeitsc.hr. ges. Orn. 1884, Taf. ii. ; Seebohm, Egqs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 12, pi. 3. fig. 7 (1896). 



Milvus vulgaris, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 36, pi. xiii. (1856). 

 Milvus ictinus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 319 (1874) ; Dresser, Birds 



Eur. v. p. 643 (1875) ; Irby, Orn. Str. Gibr. 2nd ed. p. 187 (1895). 

 Milvus milvus, Sharpe, Hand-l i. p. 268 (1899). 



The eggs of the Common Kite measure from 2-05 to 2-5 in length, 

 and from 1'7 to 1-8 in breadth. 



1. Great Britain. 



2. Caithness-shire, 4th May. 



1. Sutherlandshire. 



2. Sutherlandshire, April (A. Gunn). 

 4. Sutherlandshire, May (A. G.). 



1. Lincolnshire (F. Bond). 



4. Chatelherault, France, 26th June 



(Lieut. Knocks). 



1. Switzerland. 



1. Seville, Spain (L. H. Irby}. 



1. Seville, 10th April (L. H. L). 



1. Seville, 2nd May (R. Saunders). 



2. Coto del Key, Seville, 18th April 



(H.8.). ' 



1. Coto del Eey, 3rd May (H. S.). 



2. Pomerauia. 26th April. 

 1. Pomerania, 28th April. 



1. Pomerania, 4th May. 



2. Stolp, Pomerania, 20th April (T. 



Holland: Hargitt Coll). 



2. Stolp, 23rd April (T. H.). 



2. Stolp, 7th May (T, H.). 



1. Stettin, 2nd April (T. H.). 



2. Stettin, 3rd April (T. H.). 

 2. Stettin, 7th April (T. H.). 



1. Stettin, 12th April ( T. H.). 



2. Politz, near Stettin, 24th April 



(T. H.). 



2. Politz, 28th April (T. H.). 



Gould Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 P. Crowley, Esq. [P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohni Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohni Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



