CIKCUS -URUGINOSUS. 
Mr. A. B. Brooke, in his notes on the ornithology of Sardinia f'Tbis ' n 
eonoerning a nest in the neighbourhood of n,.' * / ? „ 1 ' l873j P- 154 )> wnt es as follows 
end of April „ bniS^I ' IT ’ ’t?,*"? *"*" s "™ -“A rest I found in the 
"'ear of.be m ,„ the bottom was toimed of "? "“/f™ <* <*• “drii- 
!«“ ««■ with their roots attached, the egg lying C 'X,1, In 'tZ t i, “l™,? ^ n " tted “ 
in number, white, with a pale greenish tinge, and sometimes slightly spotted with ZfZT bTh" 1. 
I hey measure from 3-OS to 1-84 inch in length, by 1-58 to 1-44 Inch in breadth M - Tta 1 -T 
some eggs m Ins collection as having a good number of markings consists •' • ’ 11 me 4eser4)es 
spots chiefly at one end, and in another of large blotches and smears of pale brown*' ° f SpeCkS “ d 
Mr. Hewitson remarks that the eggs are « most commonly white ” though thev 
Has variation m their character accounts for the difference of oninion ,. v & i i ^ at 4011161:111168 spotted. 
Selby on the subject. The figure iu Mr. Hewitsonf^te ~2 a shZ ‘ T f 7“^ ^ «< 
tew small spots of pale reddish scattered pretty evenly over the surface " I /l ked , f s ' thcre bem g » 
biotehes of Mulsh grey. As many as five ejgs i som^me^ ** 
* Newton’s ed. Yarr. Brit. Birds, p. 130. 
