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glossy. The ground-colour is white or very pale bluish-white, 

 densely speckled and blotched with pale reddish-brown and 

 lavender-grey. The markings sometimes coalesce over the broad 

 end of the egg so as to form a cap. They measure from '75 to *8 

 in length, and from '58 to '59 in breath. 



6. South Africa (E. L. Layard}. Crowley Bequest. 



1. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Deelfontein, Cape Colony, 19th Col. A. T. Sloggett [P.J. 

 Nov. (E. Seimund). 



Fringillaria insularis, Grant fy Forbes. 

 (Plate XI. figs. 20 &21.) 



Fringillaria insularis, Grant $ Forbes, Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. no. 1, p. 2 

 (1900) ; lid. Nat. Hist. Sokotra, p. 29 (1903) ; Sharpe, Hand-l v. 

 p. 285 (1909). 



Eggs of the Sokotra Rock-Bunting closely resemble those of 

 F. striolata. The ground-colour is greenish-white ; and while in 

 one clutch the eggs are very densely mottled and blotched with 

 dark brown and lavender-grey, in the second clutch they are densely 

 but distinctly speckled with reddish-brown and purplish-grey. .Five 

 examples measure from *7 to *75 in length, and from -51 to -55 in 

 breadth. 



3. Hoinhil, E. Sokotra, 1500 feet, Royal Society [P.]. 



24th Jan. ( W. R. Ogilvie-Grant 



Sf H. 0. Forbes). 

 2. Homhil, 1500 feet, 21st Jan. Royal Society [P.]. 



( W. R. O.-G. $ H. O. F.). 



Fringillaria striolata (Licht.). 

 (Plate XI. fig. 22.) 



Emberiza striolata, Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 197 (1871) ; Oates, Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 264 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nests 8f Eggs 

 Ind. Birds, ii. p. 170 (1890) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 344 

 (1902). 



Fringillaria striolata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 561 (1888) ; id., 

 Hand-l. v. p. 285 (1909). 



Emberiza striolata striolata. Hartert, Vb'g. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 191 

 (1904). 



The eggs of the Striolated Bunting are of a somewhat narrow oval 

 shape and very slightly glossy, They are greyish-white or pale 

 bluish-white, very densely freckled and mottled with reddish-brown 

 of .various shades, dark on some eggs, pale on others. Though 

 everywhere dense, the markings are particularly so on the broad 

 end, where in some specimens they form a very broad confluent 

 zone. The underlying markings consist of blotches and small 



