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adult 9, 7 May 1861, Valkenswaard ; 



2 nestlings, 7 May 1861, Valkenswaard; 



adult 9, 8 May 1861, Valkenswaard; 



adult cTj 9 May 1861, Valkenswaard; (this specimen has 



some rufous feathers in the white patch); 

 adult cT, 31 May 1861, Valkenswaard; 

 adult cf, 15 March 1881, Deventer. Presented by Dr. L. 



A. J. Burgersdgk ; 

 adult 9? 20 March 1885, near 's Gravenhage. Lived there 



till 20 May 1885 in the Zoological Garden (Coll. van 



Wickevoort Crommelin, 73 — 5) ; 

 adult cf, 27 June 1887, province Gelderland, without 



exact locality. 



229. Aedon luscinia (L.). [Nachtegaal]. 

 We received three specimens. 



230. Erithacus rubecula (L.). [Roodborstje]. 

 We received 13 specimens. 



231. Pratincola ruhetra (L.). [Paapje]. 



5 specimens. In the collection van Wickevoort Crom- 

 melin is a nearly white example, a male, shot 11 September 

 1884 at Vogelenzang, Noord-Holland (68—8). 



232. Pratincola ruhicola (L.). [Roodborsttapuit]. 

 4 specimens. 



233. Saxicola oenanthe (L.). [Tapuit]. 



We received 22 specimens. A pale, whitish brown spe- 

 cimen is in the collection van Wickevoort Crommelin; it 

 is a male, shot 20 September 1882 on the dunes at 

 Vogelenzang (66—9). The wings of specimens, which are 

 breeding in our country, measure in males from 89 to 97 

 mm., in females from 87 to 93 mm. At the 18*^' of May 

 1906, however, I shot on the dunes of Wassenaar a large 



N^otes from the Leyden Mluseum, "Vol. XXX. 



