256 TRINSILLIDJE. 



2. Stromness, Orkney Is. (JJ. Dunn). Crowley Bequest. 



n Ben Avon, Banffshire, 370U feet, Capt. S. G. Reid & W R. 



5th June. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq. [P.j. 



2 Lapland. Seebohm Coll. 



1. [Lapland.] Crowley Bequest. 



4. Spitsbergen, 24th June {Sir H. Seebobm Coll. 



8. Boynton). * 



4. Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia, 3rd Seebohm Coll. 



July {Middendurff). 



5. Yenesei River, Lat. 71^° N., June Seebohm Coll. 



(H. Seebohm). 

 4. Yenesei River, Lat. 71^° N., June Seebohm Coll. 

 {H.S.). 



3. Yenesei River, Lat. 71^° N., June Seebohm Coll. 



{H. S.). 



Genus CALCAEIUS, Beclist. 

 Calcarius lapponicus {Linn.). 



Emberiza lapponica, Thien. Fortfiflanz. ges. Vog. p. 371, tab. xxxiii. 



fig. 12, a-d (1845-54) ; Wheelwright, A Spring Sf Summer in 



Lapland, p. 294 (1871) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 131, pi'. 15 



(1884); id., Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 248, pi. 57. figs. 11 & 12 



(1896). 

 Plectrophanes lapponicus, Baedeher, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 3. fig. 2 (1855- 



63) ; Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 182, pi. xlvi. figs, i & ii 



(18o6) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 253 (1872) ; Baird, Brexoer, ^ 



Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 515 (1874) ; Siebohm Sf Harvie-Brovm, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 117; Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 341. 

 Calcarius lapponicus, Nelson, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 183 (1887) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 579 (1888) ; MacFarlane, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 441 (1892) ; Reij, Eier Vog. Mittekurop. 



p. 295, pi. 38. figs. 22-26 (1900) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. 



p. 373 (1902) ; Newton, Ootheca Wolleyana, pt. ii. p. 451, pi. xi. 



figs. 19-24 (1902); Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. 117, pi. 14. 



fij^s. 22-26 (1906) ; Sharpe, Han'd-l. v. p. 287 (1909). 

 Calcarius lapponicus lapponicus, Ridgw. Birds North Sr Middle Amer. 



i. p. 155 (1901) ; Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 200 (1904). 



Eggs of the Lapland Bunting are of a somewhat narrow and 

 pointed oval shape and moderately glossy. The coloration is very 

 variable. In one type the ground-colour varies from pale grey to 

 pale brown, and is almost completely concealed by confluent clouds 

 and smears of yellowish-brown, liver-brown or dull reddish-brown, 

 over which are to be seen spots, short lines and scrawls of deep 

 chocolate-brown. In another type the ground-colour is decidedly 

 greenish, blotched and clouded with lilac-grey and also marked 

 with spots and scrawls of rich purplish-brown, chiefly at the broad 

 end. In a third type, which appears to be rare, the ground-colour 

 is greenish-grey, and the whole shell is thickly speckled with light 

 greenish-brown. Intermediate forms also occur. They measure 

 from -74 to -9 in length, and from -57 to -68 in breadth. 



