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five from Gloucestershire with pure white ground, faintly 

 marked pale red ; a, clutch of four pale greenish eggs 

 without markings with a Cuckoo's (C. canorus), Kent; 

 a clutch of five with almost pure white ground, well- 

 marked with pale red (Kent). 



Hawfinch ( Coccothraustes coccothraustes) . A very beau- 

 tiful series, mostly from Kent, including a clutch of five 

 erj^thristic eggs with cream ground faintly tinged with 

 pink, markings of dark and pale reddish-brown consisting 

 of spots and vein-markings forming a zone (^ Eggs of the 

 Birds of Europe,' p. 16, fig. 30) ; a clutch of five from 

 Northants, heavily vein-marked, mostly longitudinally. 



British Goldfinch (Carduelis c. hritannicus). A series 

 of sixteen clutches ; heavily marked and almost unmarked 

 eggs were well represented. 



Siskin [Spinus spinus). A representative series of types 

 and varieties mostly from Ireland. 



House-Spaerow {Passer domesticus) . A series of twenty- 

 five clutches in which the great variation was well demon- 

 strated. Conspicuous among them was a clutch of five pure 

 white eggs almost unmarked, and a clutch of five heavily 

 capped brownish-black ; a clutch of five with greenish 

 ground, faintly marked with various shades of grey. 



Tree-Sparrow (^Passer montanus). A series of twenty- 

 five clutches mostly from Suffolk. The type and varieties 

 were well represented, the latter by very heavily pigmented 

 eggs ; also clutches in which the usual so-called odd eggs 

 were quite absent, as also was the case in the preceding 

 species. 



Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs). A very beautiful series of 

 twenty-five clutches. Among those which call for special 

 mention was a clutch of five pale blue eggs without mark- 

 ings from Surrey, a clutch of four heavily banded eggs with 

 suffused and vein markings of rich reddish-brown (Kent), 

 a clutch of five with very large suffused underlying markings 

 of purplish-red (Surrey), a clutch of four pure white eggs 

 from Herefordshire. 



Brambling {Frmgilla montifringilla). An exceptionally 



