260 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vii. 



Montagu's Harrier {C, pygargus). — These eggs are 

 sometimes more or less spotted with hght reddish-brown. 

 Mr. P. F. Bunyard has a clutch quite as heavily marked 

 as any Hen-Harrier's eggs. 



Hen-Harrier (C. cyaneus).—Both. British and Continental 

 eggs are frequently freckled with rusty-brown.* 



Griffon-Vulture {Gyps fulvtis). — ^Although normally this 

 species lays white eggs, specimens are occasionally found, 

 especially in south Spain, which are distinctly spotted with 

 light or dark red. For many years there was a small colony 

 near Malaga from which some extremely well marked eggs 

 were obtained, some of the finest of which passed into the 

 collection of the late Mr. A. W. Johnson. Eggs marked 

 with red are figured by Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, pi. i., 

 and Col. Fig., pi. i. ; Rey, Eier d. Vogel Mitteleuropas, 

 pi. 1, fig. 2; and Dresser, Eggs of the Birds Eur., pi, 36. f 



Goshawk {Accipiter g. gentilis). — Occasionally eggs of 

 this species are met with which show distinct red-brown 

 markings. Dr. Ottosson had a clutch of three with large 

 spots (Stockholm Museum), and faintly marked eggs are 

 not uncommon. 



[White-tailed Eagle Haliaetus alhicilla). — ^A clutch of 

 two eggs in F. C. R. Jourdain's collection, from south Russia, 

 has a few distinct purplish-brown markings with under- 

 lying pale ashy spots. Dr. Ottosson also had an egg with 

 markings (c/. also Baedeker, Eier d. Europaeischen Vogel, 

 pi. 57, fig. 2). British -taken eggs appear to be quite white. J] 



PuEFiN {Fratercula a. arctica) — An erythristic egg of this 

 species is in the collection of Mr. Goodall. 



* The Steppe or Pallid Harrier (C. macrurus) apparently normally 

 lays eggs which are marked in this way, some very boldly : but 

 many of the clutches in collections are from south-east Europe, 

 where several species are found breeding together, and in most 

 cases the authentication is very unsatisfactory. Some eggs of 

 G. melanoleucus and C. hudsonius also show traces of reddish 

 markings. 



t The eggs of the Himalayan Vulture {Gyps Mmalayensis) are 

 also sometimes pure white and sometimes more or less spotted 

 and marked with brown. The British Museum collection also 

 contains sparingly marked eggs of Pseudogyps bengalensis, Gyps 

 pallescens, and Otogyps calvus. 



X The eggs of the Booted Eagle {Hier actus pennatus) are normally 

 white, but occasionally spotted with red, and those of the Spanish 

 White-shouldered Eagle {Aquila heliaca adalherti) and Bonelli's 

 Eagle {Hieraetus fasciatus), though frequently white, are also found 

 with light reddish blotches and violet shell-marks. 



