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the reddish-brown surface-colour. la one "type the eggs are only 

 faintly freckled, sometimes irregularly, but often at one end and 

 occasionally at both ends, in the form of a cap. The other type 

 has the colouruig-matter so thickly distributed over the whole shell 

 as to appear of a reddish- or olive-brown tint. Examples occur 

 connecting these two types, but distinct varieties are apparently 

 scarce. One from the Crowley Bequest, taken at Churt, in Surrey, 

 is a pale oUve-blue, almost without gloss, marked at the larger end 

 with a few spots and one or two large blotches of brownish red. 

 Another from the Salvin-Godman Collection, from Surrey, is of a 

 peculiar elongated elliptical form, with a pale bluish-green ground, 

 dotted and freckled with reddish brown, rather thickly towards the 

 larger end, where there is a very distinct cap. These two are the 

 only real abnormal specimens in a total of 115 eggs in the Museum 

 cabinets. 



Eggs of the Nightingale are usually very glossy. They measure 

 from "75 to -9 in length, and from -57 to "65 in breadth. 



4. England. 



2. St. Neots, Hunts, 5th June ((?. D. 



Rowley: Tristram Coll.). 



3. Cambridgeshire. 

 3. Cambridgeshire. 



3. Cambridgeshire. 



5. Cambridgeshire. 



4. Cambridgeshire {F. Bond: Har- 



gitt Coll.). 



2. Cambridge. 



3. Maddingley, Cambridge, 19thMay. 



4. New Forest, Hampshire {H. Saun- 



ders). 

 1. Farnham, Surrey (J^. D. Godman). 

 4. Finchley, Middlesex (O. Salvin). 

 4. Finchley (O. S.). 

 1. Finchley (O. S.). 

 4. Surrey, June. 



3. Churt, Surrey. 



4. Elbeuf, France (Noury: Hargitt 



Coll.). 

 5. , Elbeuf {Noury : Sargitt Coll.). 



5. Elbeuf (iVoMry ; Sargitt Coll.). 



4. Elbeuf, 28th May (Noury: Sar- 



gitt Coll.). 



6. Valkenswaard, Holland, 14th May 



(C. B. Whartm ^ S. Seebohm). 



5. Valkenswaard, 16th May { C.B. W. 



ilfS.S.). 



5. Valkenswaard, 21st May {C.B. W. 



^ S. S.). 



6. Valkenswaard, 21st May ( C.B. W. 



8fS.8.). 



5. Valkenswaard, 21st May {C.B.W. 



4- S. S.). 



6. Valkenswaard, 21st May ( C.J^. W. 



iSf s. s.y. 



VOL. IV. 



H. F. Walter, Esq. [P.]. 

 Crowley Bec[uest. 



F. Bond, Esq. [P.l. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Grodman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



SalviQ-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



