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like the Hungarian specimen was found by the Pastor Passlcr in a 

 marsh warbler's nest (Naum. i. 2, p. 49). 



13 and 14. One found by myself in the nest of Calamoherpe phrag- 

 mitis, and one found by Count Rbdern in the nest of C. aquatic a, show 

 the extremely faint markings which almost hide the real ground 

 colour of these sedge warbler's [" rohrsangereier"] eggs. 



15. One of the most interesting of the cuckoo's eggs is a beautiful 

 blue green one, which was taken out of the nest of Accentor (nodularis, 

 without any markings, aud which, even to the shell, the grain and the 

 size [" bis auf schale, korn und grbsse"], is like a very dark egg of the 

 hedgesparrow. 



16. The nests of the pied wagtail furnished me with seven cuckoo's 

 eggs, all of which (but especially the specimen belonging to Count 

 Rbdern*) more or less resemble the eggs of the wagtails, in their 

 white or greenish ground colour, as well as in their gray and blackish 

 streaked markings. 



17. The same may be said of one found in the nest of Budytcs 

 flava. 



18. Amongst the most interesting, both in regard to colouring and 

 marking, are the three (or perhaps four, for the exact nest from which 

 one was taken is uncertain) which were found in the nests of the tree 

 pipit : one is even now, after the lapse of several years, of a dull wine- 

 red colour, which is very deep [" schr intensiv"], and shades off very 

 unmistakably into violet. The violet and reddish brown markings 

 show clearly the characteristic measle-like [" gleichsam maser "] 

 speckles, blotches and burning marks, which belong to most of the 

 tree pipit's [" baumpiepereier "] eggs. Two others bear the same cha- 

 racter of markings in bluish gray and reddish gray upon a light blue- 

 gray and light violet-gray ground. 



19. One found in a meadow pipit's [" wiesenpieper"] nest shows the 

 faint streaky markings of this pipit's eggs in a gray, which in slight 

 shades approaches to yellow. 



20. 21 and 22. These have in several shades, both of the ground 

 colour and of the markings, just the peculiarity of marking belonging 

 to the lark's eggs [" lerchen eier"], viz. a dirty greenish or yellowish 

 gray, with faint and indistinct marbled streaks and spots. 



* I must here observe that llie Count Roilern assured me that he had himself 

 taken from the nests the whole of the cuckoo's eggs handed over for my use, except 

 the plain green egg which a collector in Breslau took from a [" rolhschwanz "] 

 redstart's nest. 



