Birds' Eggs in the British Museum. 525 



and which formed part of the Hume collection. Hume 

 and Oates, however, ignored them in the ' Nests and 

 Eggs of Indian Birds.' No nest of this species has 

 ever been recorded from southern India, but it has 

 been found breeding at about COOO ft. in Assam by 

 Mr. E. C. Stuart-Baker. It is unfortunate that an egg 

 with so dubious a pedigree should have been selected 

 for illustration. 



114. Rhamphocorys clot-bey (Q\i.). Here again the figure 

 (pi. vi. fig. 16) and description arc taken from a clutch 

 of eggs purchased by Mr. Radcliffe Saunders from a 

 dealer^ and purporting to have been taken by P. Spatz 

 in Algeria. I am informed by Mr. Rothschild and 

 Dr. Hartert that Herr Spatz never visited Algeria 

 before 1912, and that the only eggs of this species 

 which have been obtained are the two taken by Koenig 

 in 1893, a clutch of two or three eggs taken by Spatz 

 and sold by him to Koenig, and those in the Tring 

 Museum taken in 1913. These all agree in being 

 marked with reddish on a white ground, and bear no 

 resemblance whatever to the egg here figured, which 

 is evidently that of some form of Crested Lark. 



123. Melanocorypha sibirica Gm. Kazan is not in 

 E. Roumelia as stated, but in E. Russia. Moreover, 

 the White-winged Lark does not breed in the Balkan 

 Peninsula. 



130. Calandrella brachy dactyl a (Leisl.). Two eggs, 

 without data, from the Crowley bequest are said to 

 come from [Germany] ! It is only known in Germany 

 as a rare straggler to Heligoland, and recorded from 

 near Mainz. 



139-140. No reliance can be placed on the authenticity 

 of the Crested Larks^ eggs from Spain and North Africa 

 as G. theklce breeds in the same districts, and the birds 

 were not distinguished by the collectors. Nearly all 

 the eggs catalogued under the heading Galerida 

 macrorhyncha Tristr. were obtained on the high ground 

 near Ain Djendcli, where G. cristata macrorhyncha does 



