172 FKINGILLID^E. 



2. Medellin, Antioquia, U.S. Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(T. K. Salmon). 



2. Medellin (Tristram Coll}. Crowley Bequest. 



6. Venezuela. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Venezuela (Nehrkorn Coll : Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram Coll.). 



Genus FEJNGILLA, Linn. 



Fringilla teydea, Well $ Berth. 

 (Plate X. fig. 16.) 



Fringilla teydea, Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 25 (1 873) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xii. p. 170 (1888) ; Gomez, Ibis, 1889, p. 260; Meade-Waldo, 

 Ibis, 1889, p. 517 ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 310 (1902) ; 

 Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 129 (1904) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 

 p. 225 (1908). 



Two eggs of the Teydean Chaffinch are of a rather long pointed 

 oval shape and slightly glossy. They are pale blue, spotted and 

 blotched at the larger end with dark chocolate-brown and pale 

 purplish-grey. They measure respectively "95 by "65 and '95 

 by -62. 



2. The Peak, 6000 ft., Tenerife, 25th W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 

 June (JR. v. Thanner]. [P.]. 



Fringilla ccelebs, Linn. 



Fringilla ccelebs, Thien. Fortpflanz. aes, Vog. p. 410, tab. xxxvi. fig. 5, 

 a-e (1845-54) ; Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. xii. fig. 3 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 192, pi. xlix. fig. i (1856) ; 

 Dresser, Bird's Eur. iv. p. 3 (1873) ; Seelohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 100, 

 pi. 13 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 171 (1888) ; See- 

 bohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 243, pi. 56. figs. 19 & 20 (1896) ; Rey, 

 Eier Vog. Mitteleurop. p. 328, pi. 39. figs. 1-8 (1900) ; Dresser, 

 Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 306 (1902) ; Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, 

 p. 82, pi. 10. figs. 1-8 (1906) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 225 (1908). 



Fringilla coelebs ccelebs, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 125 (1904). 



The eggs of the Chaffinch are typically of a broad oval form, and 

 possess a moderate amount of gloss. They are of many types 

 of coloration. In the commonest, the ground-colour is pale 

 purplish-grey suffused with soft clouds of pale rufous, especially at 

 the broad end, where the markings are, as a rule, most numerous. 

 These consist of spots of various sizes, and occasionally of short 

 crooked lines of deep chocolate-brown, the edges being blurred and 

 merging into the surrounding rufous clouds. 



In a second type, the egg is pale bluish-green, the large end 

 covered with a cap of faint rufous and marked with a few tiny 

 dots and spots of dark brown. 



In a third type, the egg is pale bluish-green, either plain or 

 marked with a few minute specks. 



In a fourth type, the egg is pale bluish-green marked, mostly at 



