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2. Stromness, Orkney Is. (R. Dunn). Crowley Bequest. 



0. Ben Avon, Banffshire, 3700 feet, * Capt. S. G. Reid & W. R. 



5th June. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Lapland. Seebohm Coll. 



1. [Lapland.] Crowley Bequest. 

 4. Spitsbergen, 24th June (Sir H. Seebohm Coll. 



S. Boynton). 



4. Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia, 3rd Seebohm Coll. 



July (Middendorff). 



5. Yenesei River, Lat. 71 N., June Seebohm Coll. 



(H. Seebohm). 



4. Yenesei River, Lat. 7H N., June Seebohm Coll. 

 (H.S.). 



3. Yenesei River, Lat. 7HN., June Seebohm Coll. 



(H. S.). 



Genus CALCARIUS, Bechst. 

 Calcarius lapponicus (Linn.). 



Emberiza lapponica, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 371, tab. xxxiii. 



fig. 12. a-d (1845-54) ; Wheelwright., A Spring $ Summer in 



Lapland, p. 294 (1871); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 131, pi. 15 



(1884); id., Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 248, pi. 57. figs. 11 & 12 



(1896). 

 Plectrophanes lapponicus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 3. fig. 2 (1855- 



63) ; Heivitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 182, pi. xlvi. figs, i & ii 



(18">6) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 253 (1872) ; Baird, Brewer, $ 



Ridyw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 515 (1874) ; Seebohm $ Harvie-Brown. 



Ibis, 1876, p. 117; Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 341. 

 Calcarius lapponicus, Nelson, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 183 (1887) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 579 (1888) ; MacFarlane, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 441 (1892) ; Rey, Eier Vog. Mitttleurop. 



p. 295, pi. 38. figs. 22-26 (1900) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. 



p. 373 (1902) ; Newton, Ootheca Wolleyana, pt. ii. p. 451, pi. xi. 



figs. 19-24 (1902); Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. 117, pi. 14. 



figs. 22-26 (1906) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 287 (1909). 

 Calcarius lapponicus lapponicus, Ridgw. Birds North fy Middle Amer. 



i. p. 155 (1901) ; Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 200 (1904). 



Eggs of the Lapland Bunting are of a somewhat narrow and 

 pointed oval shape and moderately glossy. The coloration is very 

 variable. In one type the ground-colour varies from pale grey to 

 pale brown, and is almost completely concealed by confluent clouds 

 and smears of yellowish-brown, liver-brown, or dull reddish-brown, 

 over which are to be seen spots, short lines and scrawls of deep 

 chocolate-brown. In another type the ground-colour is decidedly 

 greenish, blotched and clouded with lilac-grey and also marked 

 with spots and scrawls of rich purplish-brown, chiefly at the broad 

 end. In a third type, which appears to be rare, the ground-colour 

 is greenish-grey, and the whole shell is thickly speckled with light 

 greenish-brown. Intermediate forms also occur. They measure 

 from '74 to '9 in length, and from '57 to '68 in breadth. 



