342 G. E. Verrill — Fauna of the Island of Dominica. 



Several nests and sets of eggs are in the collection. Two charac- 

 teristic ones, may he described as follows : 



The first nest, taken on April 17, contained two fresh eggs, one 

 •64 X '49, white with very slight greenish tint, with a ring of small 

 brown and grey continent spots about the larger end, the rest of the 

 egg sparingly spotted with the same colors, thickest at the large end, 

 very lightly toward the small end, the brown predominating over 

 the whole egg. The other egg is -esx'SO, much like the other, but 

 with the brown spots much larger, clearer, and of a deeper brown 

 with no grey spots and fewer brown ones outside of the ring at the 

 large end. Plate xxv, fig. 11. 



The nest is compactly made of dry grass, stems of plants, leaves, 

 chicken feathers, bits of cloth, colored wool, and several cocoons of 

 spiders. It is lined with chicken feathers and horse hair, and 

 measures 2^ in. across the top and 2 in. high ; the cavity is If in. 

 across the top and H in. deep. 



The other nest taken on Aj^ril 9th contained three fresh eggs in- 

 termediate in color between the two just described and measuring 

 •65 X*50, '64x*49, and •64X'50. The nest is much like the last but 

 composed of more dried grasses and quite a little cotton, and contains 

 no chicken feathers nor bits of cloth. It is lined with horse hair and 

 a little down from the silk- cotton tree. 



45. Dendroica plumbea Lawr. '• Pa-pia," Pat. 



Plate xxvii, Fig. 2. 



Very abundant, found nearly everywhere. Very tame and unsus- 

 picious. Generally seen running up and down trunks of trees and 

 hanging on the terminal twigs and leaves after the manner of the 

 nuthatches and titmice. 



Sexes alike. The green plumage described by. Mr. Lawrence 

 (Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. i, 1879, p. 47), as that of the female is evi- 

 dently the livery of the young as we took two females in the full grey 

 plumage like that of the males, and one young female, April 14, with 

 the grey feathers appearing on the top of the head, back of neck, 

 around the bill, and on the throat, but otherwise agreeing with Mr. 

 Lawrence's description of the female plumage, except that the line 

 over the eye and the lower eyelid are both bright yellow instead of 

 white as he describes them. 



Iris dark brown ; upper mandible dark horn-color ; the lower 

 yellowish, grosviog das'kcr at the tip ; leg> and feet brownish yellow. 

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