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pt. i. p. 349 (1902) ; Hartert, Vog. Pal Faun. pt. ii. p. 173 (1904) ; 

 Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. 103, pi. 14. figs. 8, 9 (1906) j Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. V. p. 279 (1909). 



The eggs of the Yellow-breasted Bunting are mostly of a broad 

 oval form and have a considerable amount of gloss. They are very 

 variable. Some are quite inseparable from eggs of E. schcenidus. 

 Others are greyish-green, blotched and smeared with two shades of 

 olive-brown, and some underlying lavender- grey, and with some 

 spots and short lines of deep brown or black. Others again are 

 purplish-grey marked with spots, specks, and lines of deep purplish- 

 brown and clouds and smears of lilac-grey. They measure from '72 

 to -85 in length, and from '58 to -62 in breadth. 



3. Archangel, Russia (Nordvt). Seebohm Coll. 



1. South Russia (Tristram Coll.).- Orowley Bequest. 

 5. Moscow, 9th June (Lorenz). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Darasun, Dauria, S. Siberia Seebohm Coll. 



(Dybowski). 



2. Darasun (Dybowski). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, 9th June Seebohm Coll. 



(Kibort). 



5. Krasnoyarsk, 9th June (Kibort). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Krasnoyarsk, 24th June (Kibort). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Krasnoyarsk, 8th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



3. Krasnoyarsk, 8th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



6. Krasnoyarsk, 13th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



1. Altai Mountains (Tancre). Seebohm Coll. 



2. East Siberia (Dybowski : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



5. Saporo, Yezo, Japan, 15th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



Emberiza citrinella, Linn. 



Emberiza citrinelia, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 363, tab. xxxiii. 

 fig. 4, a-d (1845-54) ; Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 3. fig. 8 

 (1855-63) ; Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 188, pi. xlvii. fig. ii 

 (1856) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 171 (1871) [part.]; Seebohm, Brit. 

 Birds, ii. p. 160, pi. 13 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, B. M. xii. p. 515 



fif 



Europ. Birds, p. 98, pi. 13. figs. 6-11 (1906) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 

 p. 279 (1909). 



Emberiza citrinella citrinella, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 167 

 (1904). 



The eggs of the Yellow Bunting or Yellow Ammer are of a 

 broad oval form and are frequently highly glossy. The ground- 

 colour varies from purplish-white to pale pinkish-buff. The 

 markings consist chiefly of spots and an intricate network of lines 

 of a deep purplish-brown or black. The spots are generally small 



