MOTACILLA. 



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4. Dalston, Cumberland, 27tli May 



{Hey sham: Tristram Coll.). 



3. Hen Moss, Oumlierland {Hey- 



sham : Tristram Coll.). 

 6. Near Scarborough, May. 



5. Cambridgeshire. 



6. Cambridgeshire. 



4. "Waterbeaeh, Cambridgeshire,14th 



May. 

 2. Sparham, Norfolk, 4th June {F. 



Nurgate). 

 Wortham Common, Suffolk, 22nd 



May {J. G. Tueh). 

 Chesterton, Oxfordshire, 16th 



May. 

 Finchley, Middlesex. 

 Churfc, Surrey. 

 Alton, Hants. 

 Avington, Hants. 

 East Fleet, Weymouth, Dorset, 



5th June. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



W. Eadcliife Saunders, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



E. Bond, Esq. fP.l. 



F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm CoU. 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe [P.]. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



Clutches containiiig an egg of the Cuckoo {Cuculus canorus). 



2. Aldbury, Tring, Herts, 15th May 

 (W.R.S.). 

 Reigate, Sun-ey, 11th June. 



Shipton, Oxfordshire, 4th June 



(i2. W. Calvertt). 

 Nr. Monmouth, 13th May (W. 



R. 8.). 

 Nr. Monmouth, 20th May (W. 



M. S.). 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.l. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.l. . 

 "W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



F-1- 

 W^ Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Motacilla alba, Linn. 

 (Plate IV. fig. 16.) 



Motacilla alba, Thien. Fwtpjianz.ges. Vog. tab. zxt. fig. 1, a-c (1845-54) ; 

 Baedeker, JEier Eur. Vog. tab. 35. fig. 12 (1855-63) ; Hewitson, Eggs 

 of Brit. Birds, i. p. 165, pi. xli. figs, iii & iv (1856) ; Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. iii. p. 233 (1875) ; Seehohm %■ Harvie-Brovm, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 125; Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 343 ; id., Brit. Birds, ii. p. 199, pi. 14 

 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 464 (1885) ; Seebohm, Eggs 

 of Brit. Birds, p. 260, pi. 58. figs. 19 & 20 (1896) ; Dressy, Man. 

 Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 200 (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 187 (1906). 



Motacilla alba alba, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 302 (1905). 



The majority of the eggs of the White Wagtail very closely 

 resemble those of the Pied Wagtail, but the ground-colour is more 

 generally of a decided bluish tinge. Some specimens, however, 

 differ in having the markings coarser and of an olive-brown colour. 

 A single specimen in the Collection (fig. 16) is almost unmarked 

 except at the broad end, where there is a dense sooty-black cap, 



