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3. Reval, Baltic Provs., 18th June Seebohm Coll. 



(Russow). 



6. Berlin (T. Holland). Seebohm Coll. 



6. Austria, 25th May. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Parnassus, Greece, 20th May (T. Seebohm Coll. 



Kriiper}. 



2. Mt. Hermon, Palestine, 13th May Crowley Bequest. 



(H. B. Tristram}. 



1. Safed, Palestine, 14th May (H. Crowley Bequest. 

 B. T.}. 



4. Afghanistan, 3rd June ( W. R. Seebohm Coll. 



Wardlaw- Ramsay ) . 



Genus HEDYMELA, Sundev. 

 Hedymela atricapilla (Linn.}. 



Muscicapa 'atricapilla, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 303, tab. xxix. 

 fig. 9, a, b (1845-54) ; Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 52. fig. 12 

 (1855-63) ; Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 75, pi. xxi. fig. ii 

 (1856); Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 453(1875); Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. iv. p. 157 (1879) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 328, pi. 9 (1883) ; 

 id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 192, pi. 52. fig. 2 (1896). 



Muscicapa luctuosa, Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 311. 



Hedymela atricapilla, Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 213 (1901). 



The eggs of the Pied Flycatcher are of an oval form, with the 

 smaller end generally very sharply pointed, and they are usually 

 extremely glossy. They vary in colour from a very delicate 

 pale blue to a fairly dark blue. It is stated that some eggs are 

 occasionally speckled with pale reddish brown, but all the specimens 

 in the National Collection are quite plain. They measure from -63 

 to '78 in length, and from *47 to *57 in breadth. A small specimen 

 from Norway measures only '61 by '41, but another from Algeria, 

 the largest in the series, measures '78 by -6. 



5. Cumberland (Hey sham}. 



4. Penrith, Cumberland, June (Hey- 



sham). 



20. Keswick, Cumberland (F. Nichol- 

 son : Hargitt Coll.}. 



6. Carlisle. 



8. New Forest, 23rd May (H. 

 Sounders). 



3. Gene, Sweden, 7th June (Meves). 



5. Christiana, Norway (It. Collett: 



Hargitt Coll.). 



4. Norway, 23rd May (/. Lysne). 



5. Copenhagen, 17th June. 



5. Quick] ock, Lapland, 12th June 

 (H. W. Wheelwright). 



5. Pomerania, 14th May ( T. Holland). 



6. Pomerania, 24th May (T. H.). 

 6. Pomerania, 26th May (7'. H.). 



1. Madracen, Algeria, 30th May 

 (O. Salvin). 



Gould Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll, 



Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



