fresh and unblown, with pale salmon-colour, due to the partial transparency of the 

 delicate shell. About half are pure and spotless white, the rest are more or less streaked, 

 mottled, speckled, or clouded with pale yellowish, or somewhat reddish brown. The 

 markings are never bold or sharply defined as those of S. filifera so commonly are ; and 

 though the difference may not be very apparent by the description, in practice the two 

 eggs could not well be confounded. As a rule, the markings are more numerous towards 

 the large end, where they have a tendency to form an ill-defined mottled cap, and in 

 many eggs they are almost entirely confined to it. 



" In length the eggs vary from 065 to OS inch, in breadth from 0-48 to 0-58 inch ; 

 but the average struck from fifty eggs is 0-76 by 0-53 inch." 



The descriptions are taken from the series of skins in the British Museum, and the 

 figures from birds shot by Mr. Wyatt near Etawah. 



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