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sparingly marked with small spots and a few irregular lines of deep 

 chocolate-brown. They measure respectively "73 by 59 and '79 

 by -6. 



2. Amur River (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



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Emberiza chrysophrys, Pall. 

 (Plate XI. figs. 6 & 7.) 



Emberiza chrysophrys, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 498 (1888) ; 

 Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 356 (1902) ; Hartert, Voy. Pal. 

 Faun. pt. ii. p. 189 (1904) ; Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. 113 (1906 ) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 278 (1909). 



Three out of the four eggs of the Yellow-browed Bunting in the 

 Collection are very similar to the eggs in the last-mentioned clutch 

 of E. fucata, described above. They are of a very broad oval shape 

 and distinctly glossy. The ground-colour is white, clouded with pale 

 lilac-grey, and smudged with pale umber-brown and with irregular 

 lines, dashes, and spots of dark umber-brown. In the fourth egg 

 (rig. 6) the whole surface is heavily clouded with pale umber-brown, 

 the lilac-grey markings being hardly apparent, though the dark 

 markings are similar to those in the other three eggs of the clutch. 

 They measure from '68 to *73 in length, and from '57 to '58 in 

 breadth. 



4. Sidemi, E. Siberia, 10th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



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Emberiza flaviventris (Stepli.) . 



Emberiza flaviventris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 499 (1888); 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 112 (1899) ; Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, 

 i. p. 184 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 143 (1902); Reichenow, 

 Vog. Afr. iii. p. 284 (1904) ; Haagner $ Ivy, Journ. S. African Orn. 

 Union (2) i. no. 1, pi. iii. tig. 3 (1907); Sharpe. Hand-l. v. p. 278 

 (1909). 



An egg of the Golden -breasted Bunting is of a rather broad and 

 poinied oval form and very glossy. It is very pale bluish-white, 

 wreathed round the larger end with a tracery of fine irregular 

 lines and markings of dark chocolate-brown and lilac-grey. It 

 measures '79 by *59. 



Stark describes the eggs of this species as being " white thickly 

 marked all over with scrawls and hair-like zigzag lines of very 

 dark purplish-brown or black." 



1. Grahainstown, South Africa. A. Haagner & R. H. Ivy, Esqs. 



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