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early part of December, are oval in outline and smooth. 

 The ground colour is light brown, with much darker 

 colour scattered uniformly over them. Three is the 

 usual number in each nest. The eggs are very uniform 

 in size and measure 25 mm. in length and 18 mm. 

 in breadth. 



Tcenioptera pyrope, " Newsbird." Another species 

 evenly distributed throughout the archipelago. I used 

 frequently to meet with numbers of this species while 

 collecting insects and plants along the Wickham Range 

 of hills which run almost due east and west across the 

 East Falklands. Its food consists chiefly of moths, which 

 it catches on the wing with great dexterity. I have 

 never seen the eggs of this species. 



Chlorospiza melanoderma, "Falkland Island Sparrow" 

 or " Sparrow." A little yellow bird resembling our English 

 yellow-ammer. This is the only indigenous species that 

 builds its nest close to human dwellings. A pair of these 

 birds built their nest and successfully reared a family 

 of four little ones close to my workroom in Stanley. The 

 nest, made of the usual bents of grass, was carefully hidden 

 away in the middle of a timber stack. The eggs are oval 

 in outline and smooth. The ground colour is light green, 

 with light brown spots and blotches scattered over it. 

 These blotches have a decided tendency to congregate 

 towards the larger rounded end. They measure 23 mm. 

 in length, and 17 mm. in breadth. The specimens in my 

 collection are all the same size. 



Turdus falklandicus, " Thrush." Universally dis- 

 tributed but nowhere very abundant on these islands. 

 The nest is roughly constructed of grass stalks and twigs 

 of diddle-dee bushes and is usually to be found in a 

 Fachina bush {Ckilabothriuni amelloides) or on a rocky 

 ledge on some hill side. Mud in any form is never used 



