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form a ring at the larger end, the spots are also intermixed 

 with a few others of pale lavender-grey. The character of 

 the markings is longitudinal in the same way as with all the 

 members of this family. The shell is smooth and fragile 

 with a gloss, still the texture is not at all fine. Iu shape 

 they are long ovals, compressed suddenly for fully two-thirds 

 of their length, and they are decidedly pointed. 



" They measure '77 by '53 in. and '72 by 53 in." 



My other eggs agreed well with these, but were more 

 speckled than blotched. 



In 1897, Col. Rattray found this bird breeding at 

 Mussoorie and took two nests, the description of which agrees 

 in every detail with those taken by myself: — (i The fijst 

 nest was found in a hole in a rock on the bank of the Aglar 

 River, at an elevation of about 3500 feet. . . . The second nest 

 was found on the 21st June, at Kemptee Falls, at about 

 4000 feet, and was on a small shelf of rock, under a water- 

 fall." The eggs would seem also to agree well with mine. 

 Rattray describes them thus : " Large for the size of the bird, 

 long and oval in shape, and a good deal pointed at the small 

 end ; colour white with a faint pink tinge, covered with 

 numerous tiny pale red specks, most numerous at the larger 

 end ; very little gloss, but line and satiny to touch. . . . Size, 

 largest egg "84 by *63 in., smallest egg '79 by '58 in. ; average 

 of six eggs *82 by "61 in." 



The eggs of my second clutch averaged, rather roughly 

 measured, '79 by - 56 in., so that Rattray's work out a good 

 deal larger than mine. 



XV. — Notes on Birds observed at Monastir, Turkey in 

 Europe. By P. J. C. McGregor, British Consul at 

 Sarajevo (late at Monastir). 



The Turkish provinces constituting the territory commonly 

 designated as Macedonia have received but scant attention 

 from ornithologists in recent years, so that the following 

 notes on bird-life at Monastir, based on observations made 



