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nearly circular form and are distinctly glossy. The ground-colour 

 is white or yellowish -white and the markings are of two types. 

 In five clutches the entire surface of the shell is more or less 

 thickly and finely mottled all over with dull reddish-brown or 

 purplish-brown and underlying violet-grey. In two other clutches 

 the markings take the form of distinct spots and small blotches of 

 reddish-brown and pale lilac, and one has additional fine irregular 

 lines and spots of burnt-sienna. They measure from '72 to -82 

 in length, and from '58 to *65 in breadth. The roundest egg 

 measures '75 by '65. 



1. Amur River, E. Siberia (Dy- Crowley Bequest. 



bowski : Tristram Coll.}. 



1. Amur River (Nehrkorn Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



5. Chin-kiang, China, 28th May. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.I 



4. Chin-kiang, 28th June. J. D. La Touche, Esq. [C.]. 



4. Chin-kiang, 2nd July. J. D. La Touche, Esq. [C.J. 



5. Fujiyama, Hondo, Japan, 1st W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



July. p?.]. 



5. Fujiyama, 29th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Emberiza arcuata, Sharpe. 

 (Plate XI. fig. 5.) 



Emberiza arcuata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 494 (1888) ; Dresser, 

 Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 361 (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 278 

 (1909). 



Emberiza fucata, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 252 (1890) ; id., 

 ed. Hume, Nests Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 166 (1890). 



Emberiza fucata arcuata, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 187 (1904). 



Two eggs of the Himalayan Grey-headed Bunting taken at Simla 

 are of a regular oval or pointed oval shape and moderately glossy. 

 They are pale greenish-grey, densely speckled and mottled all over 

 with very pale umber-brown and underlying grey. The markings 

 are more dense at the large end than elsewhere and form an ill-defined 

 cap. They measure respectively : *85 by '57 ; '79 by -56. 



2. Simla, Himalaya, June. Hume Coll. 



Emberiza elegans, Temm. 



Emberiza elegans, Radde, Reis. Siberia, ii, p. 165, pi. v. (1863); Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 497 (1888) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 122 

 (1899); Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 355 (1902); Hartert, 

 Vog. Pal Faun. pt. ii. p. 174 (1904) ; Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 278 

 (1909). 



Two eggs of the Yellow -throated Bunting are of a rather broad 

 and somewhat pointed oval shape and very glossy. The ground- 

 colour is whitish faintly clouded with lilac-grey, and somewhat 



