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tinged with a warm pink ; but I possess eggs which might easily be mistaken for those of the 

 Garden- Warbler. The ground-colour of the ordinary type of egg is greyish or French white, 

 clouded with pale greyish brown and marked with indistinctly defined brown blotches ; but here 

 and there are one or two small distinctly defined dark spots in some eggs. The reddish-coloured 

 eggs are similarly marked ; but the ground-colour and clouding is pinkish, and the markings are 

 reddish brown. In size those in my collection average about f^ by ff inch. 



The specimens figured and described are an adult male obtained near Reading in May, and 

 an old female from Malta, the young bird described being from near London. 



In the ju'eparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 



a, <S ■ Near Reading, May 4th, 1870 [R. B. Sharpe). b, d ad. Hampstead, September 1870. c,juv. Hamp- 

 stead, June 1871 {Burton), d, d ? juv. Jaegersborg, Denmark, September 20tli, 1870 [A. Benzon). e, d . 

 Gibraltar, May 14th, 1874 [Colonel Irby) . f, d jun. Spain [H. Saunders), g, d , h, $ . Piedmont, April 

 and May 1869 [Count Salvadori) . i, S . Malta, September, k, 2 ■ Malta, October (C A. Wright). I, 6 ■ 

 September 14th, 1869. m, & . September 9th, 1871. n, 6 ■ October 6th, 1871, Ortakeuy, Turkey 

 (Robson) . o, 2 ■ Crimea ( Whitely) . 



E. Mus. Howard Saunders. 



a, <5 . Cookham, Berks, September 2nd (R. B. Sharpe). b, <$ . Generalife, Granada, October 10th. c, J. 

 Malaga, October 8th. cl, d . Seville, December 4th. e, d . Malaga, January 2nd (H. S.). f, d im. 

 (assigning black head). Valencia, April 8th, 1872 [Martin). 



E Mus. C. A. Wright. 



a, d. Malta, December 27th, 1862. b, d. Malta, February 8th, 1870 [C. A. TF.). 



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