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pale bluish-green, sparingly speckled at the broad end with deep 

 purplish-brown or black. They exhibit no trace of any of the 

 pinkish-brown shell-markings so constantly to be found on the eggs 

 of L. cliloris. On the other hand, an eighth specimen has only a 

 few pinkish shell-markings, the darker surface-markings being 

 almost absent ; the two eggs from Si-ning exhibit numerous small 

 darker and lighter purplish-red shell-markings, as well as a few 

 darker surface-spots ; and, in the clutch from Chin-kiang, the eggs 

 are white, without markings of any kind. Specimens measure 

 from '7 to '76 in length, and from -5 to "55 in breadth. 



4. Chin-kiang, China, 12th May. J. D. La Touche, Esq. 



1. Foochow, China, 1st April. C. B. Rickett, 



2. Foochow, 17th May. C. B. Rickett, 

 4. Foochow, 24th June. C. B. Rickett, 



1. Amoy (R. Swinhoe: Tristram Crovvley Bequest. 



Coll.}. 



2. Si-ning, Kansu, 12th May. Crowley Bequest. 



Ligurinus nssnriensis (Hartert). 



Chlons sinica, Nehrk. (nee Linn.} Kat. Eiersamml. p. 104 (1899). 

 Chloris sinica ussuriensis, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. i. p. 64 (1903). 

 Ligurinus ussuriensis, Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 197 (1908). 



Two eggs of the Ussuri Greenfinch are of a wide blunt oval 

 shape, and closely resemble certain eggs of L. chloris. The ground- 

 colour is pale greenish-blue, with reddish-lilac shell-markings and 

 a few dark purplish-brown surface-spots, mostly about the larger 

 end. They measure respectively *7 by '59 and '7 by '55. 



1. Sidemi, Ussuri River, East Siberia, Crowley Bequest. 



18th May. 

 1. Sidemi, 26th May. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus EOPHONA, Gould. 



Eophona melanura (Grmel.}. 



Eophona melanura, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 28 (1888) ; Dresser, 

 Man. Pal Birds, pt. i. p. 286 (1902) ; La Touche, Ibis, 1906, p. 627; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 197 (1908). 



Euphona melanura, Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 104 (1899). 



Eophona melanura melanura, Hartert, Vog. Pal Faun. pt. i. p. 59 

 (1903). 



Eggs of the Black-tailed Hawfinch recall in general appearance 

 those of Coccothraustes coccothraustes, but they are more heavily 

 marked. They vary in shape from a very broad to a somewhat 

 pointed oval form, and are distinctly glossy. They are pale 

 greyish- or olive-green, with strongly-marked rounded spots and 

 irregular lines and scrolls of very dark brown, and with under- 



