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AVIFAUNA. 



adult 9, 7 May 1861, Valkenswaard ; 



2 nestlings, 7 May 1861, Valkenswaard; 



adult 9? 8 1861, Valkenswaard; 



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



some rufous feathers in the white patch) ; 

 adult (ƒ, 31 May 1861, Valkenswaard; 

 adult (ƒ, 15 March 1881, Deventer. Presented by Dr. L. 



A. J. Burgersdijk ; 

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



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



Wickevoort Crommeliu, 73 — 5); 

 adult (ƒ» 27 June 1887, province Gelderland, without 



exact locality. 



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

 We received three specimens. 



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

 We received 13 specimens. 



231. Pratincola rubetra (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 rubicola (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 th of May 

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



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXX. 



