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brown, ochre, or reddisli brown, and underlying lavender or lilac. 

 The markings consist of specks, spots, and blotches in various 

 combinations, and the most frequent types are shown by the 

 specimens figured (Plate VII. figs. 1-5). The eggs of the different 

 species of Swallows laying the same type of egg (plain or spotted) 

 cannot be separated from each other. 



Hirundo rustica, Linn. 



Hinmdo rustica, Thien.Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xlii. fig. 11, a-e (1845—54) ; 

 Baedeker, JEier Eur. Vog. tab. 52. fig. 17 (1855-63) ; Sewitson, Eggs 

 of Brit. Birds, i. p. 257, pi. Ixv. figs, iii & iv (1856) ; Dresser, Birds 

 Bur. iii. p. 477 (1875) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 171, pi. 17 

 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 128 (1885) ; id. §• Wyatt, 

 Mon. IlirundinidcB, i. p. 213 (1885-94); Oates ed, Hume, Nests S( 

 Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 184 (1890) ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 269, pi. 58 a. figs. 17 & 20 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 192 

 (1901). 



Hirundo cahirica, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, p. 861. 



The eggs of the Chimney-Swallow are of the spotted type. They 

 measure from -7 to -9 in length, and from "5 to -58 in breadth. 



