PTrONOPEOGNE. 



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1. N.W. India (A. A. Anderson: Crowley Bequest. 

 Tristram Coll.). 



3. Agra, 1st Feb. Hume CoU. 

 1. Etawah, 12th March. Hume Coll. 

 1. Jumna Kiver, Etawah, 14th Jan. Hume Coll. 



1. Bharaitch, 17th June. Hume Coll. 



4. Allahabad, 26th Feb. Hume Coll. 



2. Chupra, 15th March. Hume Coll. 



3. Raipur, C. Provinces. Hume Coll. 



3. Akyab, Burma, 15th Feb. (E. R. Crowley Bequest. 

 Shopland). 



Genus PTYONOPEOGNE, Reichenh. 



The eggs of the Eock-Martins are all of the same type and hardly 

 separable from one another. They are of a somewhat lengthened 

 oval shape, and exhibit a moderate amount of gloss. The ground- 

 colour is white, speckled and spotted, and at times blotched, with 

 brownish red or chestnut and underlying grey or lavender. The 

 markings are almost invariably dense and more or less confluent at 

 the broad end, where they form an irregular zone or imperfect cap. 



Ptyonoprogne rupestris (Scop.). 



Ootile rupestris, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 52. fig. 16 (1855-63) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 513 (1874) ; Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 



p. 109 (1885) ; id. %■ Wyatt, Mon. Rirundinida, i. p. 06 (1885-94). 

 Hiruado rupestris, Bree, Birds Eur. 2nd ed. iv. p. 96, pi. — (1875). 

 Biblis rupestris, Sharpe ^ Wyatt, op. cit. p. 129. 

 Ptyonoprogne rupestris, Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 190 (1901). 



The eggs of the Eock-Martin measure from 'GQ to '83 in length, 

 and from '52 to "57 in breadth. 



4. St. Gotthard, Switzerland, 12th Seebohm Coll. 



June {T. Holland). 

 2. Mont Cenis (T. Kruper). 

 1. Styria. 

 i. Styria. 

 4. Parnassus, Greece, 1st June {T. 



Kruper). 

 1. Parnassus, 2nd June {T. K.). 

 1. Parnassus, 5th June {T. K.). 



1. Greece {Tristram Coll.). 



2. Smyrna, 4th May {T. K.). 

 1. Thebes, Egypt, Feb. (C Cavendish 



Taylor). 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Ptyonoprogne obsoleta (Cab.). 



(Plate VII. fig. 2.) 



Cotile obsoleta, Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 521 (1875) j Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. X. p. Ill (1885) ; id. §• Wyatt, Mon. Hirundinidce, i. p. Ill 

 (1885-94). 



