252 PRINSILLID^. 



glossy. The ground-colour is white or very pale bluish-white, 



densely speckled and blotched with pale reddish-brown and 



lavender-grey. The markings sometimes coalesce over the broad 



end of the egg so as to form a cap. They measure from -75 to "8 



in length, and from -58 to -59 in breath. 



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6. South Africa (-E. i. iayarrf). Crowley Bequest. 



1. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Deelfontein, Cape Colony, 19th Col. A. T. Sloggett [P.J. 

 Nov. (-B. Seimund). 



Fringillaria insularis, Grant ^ Forbes. 



(Plate XI. figs. 20 &21.) 



Fringillaria insularis, Grant ^ Forbes, Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. no. 1, p. 2 

 (1900) ; iid. Nat. Hist. Sokotra, p. 29 (1903) ; Sharps, Band-l. v. 

 p. 285 (1909). 



Eggs of the Sokotra Eock-Bunting closely resemble those of 

 F. striolata. The ground-colour is greenish-white ; and while in 

 one clutch the eggs are very densely mottled and blotched with 

 dark brown and lavender-grey, in the second clutch they are densely 

 but distinctly speckled with reddish- brown and purplish-grey. Five 

 examples measure from •? to -lb in length, and from -51 to -55 in 

 breadth. 



3. Homhil, E. Sokotra, 1500 feet, Royal Society [P.]. 



24th Jan. ( W. R. Ogilvie-Grant 



Sf S. 0. Forbes). 

 2. Homhil, 1500 feet, 21st Jan. Royal Society [P.]. 



( W. S. O.-G. 6f H. O. F.). 



Pringillaxia striolata (Licht.). 

 (Plate XI. fig. 22.) 



Emberiza striolata. Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 197 (1871) ; Oates, Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 264 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nests Sf Fggs 

 Ind. Birds, ii. p. 170 (1890) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 344 

 (1902). 



Fringillaria striolata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 661 (1888) ; id., 

 Hand-l. v. p. 285 (1909). 



Emberiza striolata striolata, Jiartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 191 

 (1904). 



The eggs of the Striolated Bunting are of a somewhat narrow oval 

 shape and very slightly glossy, They are greyish-white or pale 

 bluish-white, very densely freckled and mottled with reddish-brown 

 of various shades, dark on some eggs, pale on others. Though 

 everywhere dense, the markings are particularly so on the broad 

 end, where in some specimens they form a very broad confluent 

 zone. The underlying markings consist of blotches and small 



