200 



FEINGILLID^. 



Mittehurop. p. S07, pi. 42. figs. 11-20 (1900) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. 

 B rch, pt. i. p. 293 (1902) [part.] ; Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. 94, 

 pi. 12. tigs. 11-20 (1904) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 245 (1909). 

 Passer montana montana, Hartert, Yog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 160 

 (1904). 



The eggs o£ the Tree-Sparrow vary in shape from a pointed to a 

 blunt oval and have a moderate amount of gloss. The ground- 

 colour is white, greyish-white or pale bluish-white, speckled and 

 spotted, blotched, smeared or streaked, in some eggs sparingly but 

 in the majority densely, with varying shades of brown and violet- 

 grey. These markings are generally densest and darkest at the 

 broad end, where they often form a cap or broad zone. In this, 

 as in other Sparrows' eggs, a clutch seldom consists entirely of eggs 

 quite of one type, one specimen generally differing markedly from 

 the others in the distribution and density of the markings. The 

 eggs taken by Swinhoe in Amoy are extremely varied in colour, 

 the most remarkable type being a white egg with a dense rufous 

 cap at the broad end. 



Eggs of the Tree-Sparrow measure from -7 to "86 in length, and 

 from "48 to -6 in breadth. 



4. 

 5. 

 4. 

 4. 

 3. 



4. 

 4. 



4. 

 6. 

 5. 

 4. 

 4. 

 6. 



St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, 7th 



June (J. 8. E.). 

 Cluny, Inverness-shire. 

 Ergland. 



Wilstrop, Yorkshire, May. 

 Wilstrop, 22nd May. 

 Cheshire (F. Xicholson : Sargitt 



CoU.). 

 Crewe, Cheshire. 

 Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, 4th 



July (C Beech). 

 Cambridgeshire. 

 Cambridgeshire. 

 Cambridgeshire. 

 Cambridgeshire {F. Bond). 

 Cambridge. 

 Waterbeacb,Cambridge,9th May 



(O. 8.). 

 Welney, Cambridge, 21st May 



{W. Fan-en). 

 Upware, Cambridge, 13th May 



(O. 8.). 

 Harrow, Middlesex, 11th June 



(H. T. Booth). 

 Graveney, Faversham, Kent, 29th 



May (//. T. B.). 

 Clay, Hythe, Kent, 16th May 



(6. S.). 

 Vosges, France (Mougel: Har- 



giU Coll.). 

 Elbeuf, Normandy (Noury : 



Sargitt Coll.). 

 Elbeuf (iV^owy ; Hargitt Coll.). 

 Valkenswaard, Holland, 12th 



May {H. 8.). 



J. Steele Elliott, Esq. [P.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Old Collection. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 



W. Eadcliife Saunders, Esq. 



F. Bond, Esq. [P.'. 

 F. Bond, Esq. I P.]. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Salviu-Qodman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. ^ 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



