CYANECTJLA. 



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are of a pale greenish white, thickly spotted and mottled with 

 more or less dull and dingy chestnut-brown and lavender, but 

 little ground-colour being visible in some specimens ; the markings 

 often collect into a confluent cap at the broad end. They measure 

 from '68 to '8 in length, and from -54 to *61 in breadth. 



6. Himalayas. 



2. Dharmsala, Himalayas, 20th May. 

 1. Dharmsala ( W. E. Brooks : Tris- 

 tram Coll.}. 



3. Kuatun, Fohkien, China, 7th May. 



4. Kuatun, 7th May. 



1 . Kuatun, 20th April (J. D. La T.). 



3. Kuatun, 21st April (J. D. LaT.). 



4. Kuatun, 22nd April (J. D. La T.). 



2. Kuatun, 20th May (J. D. LaT.). 

 6. Kuatun, June (J. D. La T.}. 



2. Foochow, 3rd May. 



2. Fohkien Province, May. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Genus CYANECULA, Brehm. 



Cyanecula suecica (Linn.). 



Sylvia suecica, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxii. fig. 7,a-c (1845-54) ; 



Wheelwright, Spring $ Summer in Lapl. p. 286 (1871). 

 Cyanecula suecica, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 27. fig. 7 (1855-63) ; 



Dresser ', Birds Eur. ii. p. 317 (1874) ; Seebohm 8f Harvie-Brown, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 125 ; Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 99 (1890) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 153 (1903). 

 PhoBnicura suecica. Hewitson. Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 102, pi. xxix. 



fig. i (1856). 

 Erithacus cjeruleculus, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 308 (1881) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml p. 39 (1899). 

 Erithacus suecica, Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 269. pi. 9 (1883) ; id. Eqqs 



of Brit. Birds, p. 184, pi. 51. figs. 6 & 7 (1896). 



The eggs of the Red-spotted Blue-throat may be described as 

 small forms of the bluish-green type of those of the Nightingale. 

 The ground-colour is greenish blue, frequently with a dull olive 

 tinge, and while some specimens are nearly uniformly of this colour, 

 the majority are distinctly speckled with rufous. They measure 

 from *65 to *8 in length, and from -55 to *57 in breadth. 



3. Swedish Lapland (J. Wolley : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 

 7. Lapland, 19th June. 

 2. Lapland (A. Newton). 



5. Lapland (T. Holland). 



2. Stockholm, June (Tristram Coll.). 



4. Petchora River, Lat. 67 N., June 



(H. Seebohm fy J. A. Harvie-Broiun) 



6. Petchora River, Lat. 68 N., 25th 



June (If. S.$J.A.H.-B.). 



3. Petchora River, Lat. 67^ N., 4th 



July (H. S. SfJ. A.H.-B.). 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



' Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



