98 MOTACILLID^l. 



5. Sikhim Terai, 12th May. Hume Coll. 



3. Sikhim Terai, 18th May. Hume Coll. 



2. Raipur, C. Provs., loth April Hume Coll. 



(F. R. Blewitt). 



1. Belgaum, 19th April (E. A. Hume Coll. 

 Butler). 



4. Belgaum, 23rd April (E. A. B.). Hume Coll. 

 1. Belgaum, 9th May (E. A. .). Hume Coll. 



1. Belgaum, 10th May (E. A. B.). Hume Coll. 



3. Belgaum, 14th June (.E. A. B.). Hume Coll. 



3. Belgaum, 26th June (E. A. B.). Hume Coll. 



5. Wynaad, S. India. Hume Coll. 



4. Niitrhiri Hills. Hume Coll. 



2. Kotagherry, Nilg-hiri Hills, 5th Hume Colh 



April (Miss Cockburn). 



1. Kotagherry, 15th April (Miss Hume Coll. 



Cockburn). 



2. Kotagherry, 3rd May (Miss Hume Coll. 



Cockburn). 



3. Kotasrherry, 10th May (Miss Hume Coll. 



Cockburn). 



2. Klang, Malay Peninsula, 29th Hume Coll. 



March (W. Davison). 



1. Klang, 3rd April ( W. D.). Hume Coll. 



3. Klanjr, 23rd April ( W. D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Biserat, Jalor, 18th July. H. C. Robinson, Esq. [P.]. 



Anthus prat en sis (Linn.). 



Anthus pratensis, Thien. Fortpfanz. ges. Tot/, tab. xxv. fig. 8,a-c (1845- 

 54) ; Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 35. fig. 5 (1855-63) ; Hewitson, 

 Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 173, pi. xliv. figs, i & ii (1856) ; Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. iii. p. 285 (1874); Seebohm fy Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 121; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 224, pi. 14 (1884); Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. x. p. 580 (1885) ; Seebohm, Eyys of Brit. Birds, p. 264, 

 pi. 58 A. figs. 9 10 (1896) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 210 

 (1902) ; Radclife Saunders, Bull B. O. C. xiv. no. ciii. p. 42 (1904) ; 

 Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 275 (1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l v. 

 p. 148 (1906). 



The eggs of the Meadow-Pipit are, for the most part, of a pointed 

 oval shape and moderately glossy. The ground-colour varies from 

 greyish- or brownish-white to pale stone-colour and sometimes it is 

 pale blue. The markings on the majority of the eggs are of various 

 shades of brown and underlying lavender or purplish-grey. On 

 some specimens they are very dense and form a confluent mass, 

 concealing nearly the whole of the ground-colour ; and on others 

 they are comparatively sparse and separate, permitting quite half of 

 the ground-colour to be seen. Some examples are almost uniformly 

 of a stone-colour, marked with a few spots and fine hair-lines of 

 dark brown or black ; others are very faintly mottled all over with 

 minute streaks and dots. A clutch of five eggs taken at Seasalter, 

 Faversham, are very abnormal in coloration. They are almost 

 uniform pale blue, with a few spots, blotches, or hair-streaks of 

 yellowish-brown, purple-brown, and lilac-grey, mostly confined to 



