1018 STEENA FLUVIATILIS. 



round the obtuse end ; these are mingled with light brown spots and blotches, beneath which are the usual 

 bluish-grey and purple clouds. The dark markings are, as a rule, somewhat regular- edged. The dimensions 

 of several are 167 by 123, 179 by 123, 1-73 by 1-22, and 165 by 121 inch. 



Some eggs are richly clouded with red-brown, running in an oblique direction across the shell ; and one 

 specimen, in a large series collected by Mr. Seebohm, has a zone of hieroglyphic blotches at some distance 

 from the obtuse end, mingled with blots of bluish grey, the rest -of the egg being almost devoid of 

 markings. Two opposite extremes in size in this series are 1'81 by T09 and 1*55 by 119 inch. 





