Birds' E(jgs in the British Museum. 523 



eggs of the Eastern race (crassirostris) from the Balkan 

 Peninsula^ Asia Minor_,Palestine,etc., differ considerably 

 in appearance from those of the Western race, and can 

 generally be distinguished at a glance. 



P. 214. S. mystacea Menetr. The first two citations in the 

 synonymy given do not apply to this species, but refer 

 to Bowman's Warbler. On p. 215 for "Bowman's 

 Warbler " read "■ Menetries' Warbler." 



P. 294. Pomatorhi/uchtis tschciffra (Yieiil.). The eggs figured 

 (pi. xiii. f. 10) and described under this name are not 

 those of the Hooded Shrike or any species of the genus 

 Pomatorhynclius , but obviously are those of a species 

 of Lanius. That taken by Tristram is the egg of 

 L. algeriensis. The statement in the footnote is also 

 erroneous, as Bree's figure repi'esents the egg of this 

 species correctly. This error has already been pointed 

 out by H. E. Dresser in his 'Eggs of the Birds of 

 Europe/ p. 295. 



P. 304. Lophophanes cristatus (L.). Under this name are 

 catalogued four eggs from Gibraltar taken by Colonel 

 Irby (from the Seebohm collection). Although Irby 

 marked these eggs in ink as " Creeper " quite correctly, 

 his identification has been ignored, and the eggs 

 catalogued as Crested Tits, though any confusion 

 between the nests of the two species would be 

 impossible to a field-naturalist. They are really the 

 eggs of the Spanish race of the Short-toed Creeper, 

 C. brachydadyla ultramontana, and agree perfectly with 

 other eggs of this species in my collection from the 

 same locality. 



In the first entry under this heading delete " Ross- 

 shire " and substitute " Probably Spey Valley " (see 'A 

 Eauna of the Moray Basin,' i. p. 256). 



P. 326. Certhia familiaris L. At least one entry under 

 this title, that from " S. Spain (H. Saunders)," does not 

 belong to this species, but to C. brachjdadyla. 

 [Among minor misprints in this volume) for Dr. H. 



'Collart' read ' Coltart ' (p. 40, 1. 20 from below) ; for 



