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all highly glossy, and in shape they are 

 oval, elliptical or pyriform ; hardly two 

 eggs being of the same shape. The 

 ground-colour varies from pale green to 

 dark olive-green, and a few are buff or 

 stone-colour. They are all blotched and 

 streaked with pale reddish brown or brown, 

 but in such a pale manner that at a short 

 distance many of the eggs appear un- 

 marked. In length they vary from 1*92 

 to 2*23, and in breadth from 1*43 to i'6. 



The male in summer plumage has the 

 forehead and crown fulvous much marked 

 with black ; the throat, the sides of the 

 head, and a band round the back of the 

 head bluish grey. The whole neck is 

 black with a band of white round the 

 back of the head immediately next to the 

 bluish grey band ; and another white band 

 runs diagonally down each side of the 

 neck, the two meeting in front. Below 

 the black of the neck there is a broad 

 white band succeeded by a narrower black 

 band. The feathers of the hindneck are 

 much lengthened. The lower plumage is 

 white. The upper plumage and much of 

 the visible portions of the closed wings are 

 fulvous banded with black ; the remaining 

 portions of the closed wings are white. The 

 first ten quills of the wing are white at 



