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face with rounded spots of purplish brown ; another set of four are of a warmer yellowish-brown 

 tint, and more thickly studded with dark spots, especially at the larger end ; a specimen showing 

 a very narrow form has the entire surface covered with minute round spots, very equally distri- 

 buted ; another has the thick end blotched with dark purplish grey, as though the colours had been 

 partially washed out ; and another, which is of appreciably smaller size than ordinary examples, 

 is delicately speckled all over, with here and there a larger spot, and with a dull irregular blotch 

 of brown nearly an inch in extent towards the larger end. The last of the series to be noticed is 

 an extremely handsome specimen : the ground-colour is a pale creamy brown, with widely scat- 

 tered and obscure spots of darker brown ; but the thicker portion of the egg presents numerous 

 marbled veins of purplish brown, among which are fine pencilled markings and wavy lines of red, 

 producing a very pleasing effect. 



