PEATINCOLi. 



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indistiuct zone or cap. In size they vary from '7 to '81 in length., 

 and from -55 to "6 in breadth. 



Fratincola rubicola {Linn.). 



Saxicola rubicola, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. V'og. p. 236, tab. xxiii. 



fig. 7, a, b, c (1845-54) ; Kemtson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 107, 



pi. XXX. fig. i (1856). 

 Pratincola rubicola, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 27. fig. 12 (1855-63) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 18o9, p. 307 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 263, part. (1873) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 185 (1879) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. 



p. 817 (1883) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 191, pi. 51. fig. 16 (1896) ; 



Sharpe, Handel, iv. p. 171 (1903). 



The eggs of the Stonechat are of the same type as those of the 

 Whinohat, but the ground-colour is of a paler greenish blue, and the 

 spotting is frequently very dense. The Collection contains no plain 

 eggs ; all the examples are marked in varying degrees with pale 

 chestnut. In some there are merely a iew faint specks and smears; 

 in the majority the markings consist of specks, spots, and small 

 blotches, very thickly disposed over the broader end, nearly always 

 in the form of a conspicuous cap or zone. They measure from '65 

 to "75 in length, and from -55 to "G in breadth. 



6. 

 5. 

 6. 



Co. Waterford, 13th April (JJ. J. 



Co. Waterford, 13th April (B. J. U.). 

 Co. Waterford, 24th April [R. J. U.). 

 Co. Waterford, 5th May {B. J. U.). 

 Co. Waterford, 19th May (iE.j: U.). 

 Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, 



28th May (O. Salvin). 

 Hampstead Heath {O. S,). 

 Brighton Race-course (F. Bond: 



Hargitt Coll.). 

 Brighton Race-course {F. B. : 



Hargitt Coll.). 

 Brighton (H. Saunders). 

 Brighton, May (B. B. Sharpe). 

 Brighton, May (.ffi. B, S.). 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm CoU. 



