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The two eggs in the collection are light greenish or dirty white 

 with a number of dark brown spots at the large end and few of the 

 same color scattered over the rest of the egg. They measure 

 •6 IX -48. 



Family, Tanagrid^. 



39. Euphonia fiavifrons (Sparrm.). '• Peritch," Pat. (Fr. Pernich, Parroqiiet). 

 " Jaco," Pat. and Fr. (Parrot). 



Hare. We obtained all our specimens, nine in number, from the 

 same tree and saw no others anywhere else. At this particular tree, 

 however, one or more could almost always be obtained, at least by 

 waiting a short time. The natives insisted that there was only one 

 other tree of the same kind on the island and that these two trees 

 were the only places where the birds were found. The tree in ques- 

 tion had a parasitic vijie of some sort growing on it and it appeared 

 to be on the berries of this vine that the birds fed, as their crops 

 were nearly always full of them. 



These birds are very quiet, so that we heard them utter no note 

 beyond a few- chirps and twitters. In their actions they are slow 

 and deliberate, crawling rather than hopping about, from which 

 habit, probably, as well as their bright colors, the natives call them 

 "Jaco" and " Peritch," apparently fancying they either are parrots 

 themselves or bear some close relation to them. 



The sexes are very similar, the colors of the male brighter than in 

 the female but otherwise the same. Irides black, bill black, legs 

 and feet greyish black. 6 5-2f-lf-8i ; 5-2^-1 f. 9 5-2^-lf. 



"Nest built of sticks, in a hole in a tree. Egg:s pure white, sometimes slightly 

 spotted. One nest found, but the eggs were badly incubated and not saved." — (a. h. t.) 



40. Saltator guadelupensis Lafr. '-Grosbec," Pat. and Fr. (Grosbeak). 



Not common. A shy inhabitant of the thickest underbrush and 

 bushes, generally found along the borders of the paths and cleared 

 land. Sexes similar. Of the seasonal variation in this bird Mr. 

 Allen, who examined our series, writes as follows : " This insular 

 form of S. alhicollis is represented by seven specimens, showing 

 considerable variation in color, the March and April specimens being- 

 much greener, especially below, than those taken during the last 

 half of May." 



Iris Ijrown; legs and feet brown; upper mandible dark horn-color 

 at the base, yellow at the tip ; lower mandible yellow with a large 

 dark spot on each side at the base. $, 9-4^3|-13| ; 9-4-3^12^ ; 

 9i-4-3i-13t; 8-3^-3i; 8-3|-3|. 9 81-4^-3^-13; 81-4^-3^-1. 3i. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. VIII. 45 April, 1892. 



