. Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum. PHONEUS. 279 grey. Five examples measure from 1-01 to 1-09 in length, and from -76 to -79 in breadth. 5. Santa Cruz Island, California Salvin-Godman Coll. 9th May (E. H. Beck). Genus PHONEUS, Kaup. Phoneus nubicus (LicJu.). Lanius nubicus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vmj. tab. 52. fig. 7 (1855-63) ; Tristram, Ibis, 1867, p. 365 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 417 (1871); Oadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 282 (1883). Lanius personatus, Bree, Birds Eur. i. p. 168, pi. (1865), 2nd ed. ii. p. 22, pi. (1875) ; Kriiper, 0. 1869, p. 30. Ph
. Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum. PHONEUS. 279 grey. Five examples measure from 1-01 to 1-09 in length, and from -76 to -79 in breadth. 5. Santa Cruz Island, California Salvin-Godman Coll. 9th May (E. H. Beck). Genus PHONEUS, Kaup. Phoneus nubicus (LicJu.). Lanius nubicus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vmj. tab. 52. fig. 7 (1855-63) ; Tristram, Ibis, 1867, p. 365 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 417 (1871); Oadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 282 (1883). Lanius personatus, Bree, Birds Eur. i. p. 168, pi. (1865), 2nd ed. ii. p. 22, pi. (1875) ; Kriiper, 0. 1869, p. 30. Phoneus nubicus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 283 (1903). The eggs of the Masked Shrike are mostly of a pointed oval form and possess a fair amount of gloss. They are of a creamy-buff colour, usually marked with well-defined spots and blotches of brown or yellowish brown and lavender. These are chiefly distributed over the larger half of the egg, and often form an irregular zone, but they are not so streaky in character as in the eggs of most other Shrikes. They measure from -77 to -87 in length, and from -59 to •68 in breadth. 2. Safed, Palestine. Canon Tristram [C.]. 4. Jericho, 16th April {M. B. Salvin-Godman Coll. Tristram). 1. Jericho, 11th April (J".-H". Cbc^rawe). Seebohm Coll. 2. Jericho, 17th April (J. H. C). Seebohm Coll. 4. Ceesarea Philippi, 9th May {H. B. Crowley Bequest. Tristram^. 4. Csesarea Philippi, 13th Mav Crowley Bequest {H. B. T.). 3. Smvma, 25th May (T. ZrM^er). Seebohm Coll. 4. Smyrna, 25th May {T. K.). Seebohm Coll. 6. Smyi-na, 25th May (T. iT.). Seebohm CoU. 3. Smyrna, 26tb May (T. E.). Seebohm Coll, 0. SmVrna, 26th May (T. K.). Seebohm Coll, 1. Smvrna, 30th May (T. X.). Seebohm Coll. 6. Smyrna, 31st May (T. K.). Seebohm Coll. 4. Smyrna, Jime (T. K.). Seebohm Coll. 3. Smvrna, 13th June (T. K). Seebohm Coll. 2. Smvrna, Lith Juue {T. K). Seebohm Coll. 1. Smyrna, 4th July (T. ^.). Seebohm Coll. 1. Snxyinh {JV. IT. Simpson: Tristram Crowley Bequest. Co
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