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the reddish-brown surface-colour. In one type the eggs are only 

 faintly freckled, sometimes irregularly, but often at one end and 

 occasionally at both ends, in the form of a cap. The other type 

 has the colouring-matter so thickly distributed over the whole shell 

 as to appear of a reddish- or olive-brown tint. Examples occur 

 connecting these two types, but distinct varieties are apparently 

 scarce. One from the Crowley Bequest, taken at Churt, in Surrey, 

 is a pale olive-blue, almost without gloss, marked at the larger end 

 with a few spots and one or two large blotches of brownish red. 

 Another from the Salvin-Godman Collection, from Surrey, is of a 

 peculiar elongated elliptical form, with a pale bluish-green ground, 

 dotted and freckled with reddish brown, rather thickly towards the 

 larger end, where there is a very distinct cap. These two are the 

 only real abnormal specimens in a total of 115 eggs in the Musenm 

 cabinets. 



Eggs of the Nightingale are usually very glossy. They measure 

 from -75 to -9 in length, and from -57 to -65 in breadth. 





4. 

 2. 



3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 5. 

 4. 



2. 

 3. 

 4. 



1. 



4. 

 4. 

 1. 

 4. 

 3. 

 4. 



5. 

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4. 



5. 

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England. 



St. Neots, Hunts, 5th June (G. D. 



Rowley: Tristram Coll.}. 

 Cambridgeshire. 

 Cambridgeshire. 

 Cambridgeshire. 

 Cambridgeshire. 

 Cambridgeshire (F. Bond: Har- 



gitt Coll). 

 Cambridge. 



Maddingley, Cambridge, 19thMay. 

 New Forest, Hampshire (If. Saun- 



ders) . 



Farnham, Surrey (F. D. Godman). 

 Finchley, Middlesex (O. Salvin). 

 Finchley (O. &). 

 Finchley (O. S.). 

 Surrey, June. 

 Churt, Surrey. 

 Elbeuf, France (Noury : Hargitt 



Coll.). 



Elbeuf (Noury : Hargitt Coll}. 

 Elbeuf (Noury: Hargitt Coll.). 

 Elbeuf, 28th May (Noury : Har- 



gitt Coll.). 

 Valkenswaard, Holland, 14th May 



(C. B. Wharton $ H. Seebohm). 

 Valkenswaard, 1 6th May (C.B.W. 



H. F. Walter, Esq. [P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



F. Bond, Esq. [P.I. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.I. 

 F. Bond, Esq. \P.]. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll, 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



5. Valkenswaard, 21st May (C.B. W. Seebohm Coll. 



6. Valkenswaard, 21st May ( C.B. W. Seebohm Coll. 



8rH.8.). 



5. Valkenswaard, 21st May (C.B.W. Seebohm Coll. 



6. Valkenswaard, 21st May (C.B. W. Seebohm Coll. 



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