130 cucuLina:. 



1. Mexico {Nehvkom Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



3. San Geronimo, Guatemala, 3rd Salvin-Godman Coll. 



April (R. Oiven). 

 1. San Geronimo, May (0. Snlvin : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



Sub-Family CROTOPHAGIN^. 



The eggs of the Cuckoos of this group are of a blue colour, more 

 or less covered by a white chaliiy deposit. They are elliptical in 

 shape. 



Geuus CI10T0PHA.GA, Linn. 



Crotophaga major, Gm. 



Crotophaga major, Tliien. Fortpflanz. (/es. Tiii/. p. 91, tab. xv. fio'. 8 (nee 10) 

 (1845-54); Shellei/, Cat. Birds' £. M'. xix. p. 428 (1891); Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersaminl. p. 173 (1899) ; vo7i Iherinq, Rev. Mus, Paulista, 

 iv. p. 263 (1900; ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 175 (1900). 



An egg of the Greater Ani in the Collection is of a deep blue 

 colour, covered over the larger part of its surface with a thin white 

 deposit. It measures 1"7 by 1'35. 



1. Brazil. Crowley Bequest. 



Crotophaga ani, Linn. 



Crotophaga ani, D'Orh. i7i De La Sagra^s Hist. Cuba, Aves, pi. xxxi. 

 tig. 2-2 (1839) ; Thien. Fortpfianz. yes. V6(j. p. 90, tab. xv. fig. 9, a, b 

 (1845-54) ; Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 28:^ (1847) ; A.^E. Neivton, Ibis, 

 1859, p. l48, pi. xii. fig. 5 ; Baird, Brewer S,- Mdyiv. N.Amer. Birds, 

 ii. p. 488 (1874) ; Balgleish, Proc. R. Pkys. >Soc. Edinh. x. p. 81 

 (1888-90) ; Scl. ^ Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 31 (1889) ; Shelley, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. xix. p. 429 (1891) ; Bendire, Life- Hist. N. Amer'. Birds, 

 ii. p. 6, pi. i. fig. 6 (1895) ; Salv. ^ Godm. Biol. Cent r.- Amer., Aves, 

 ii. p. 544 (1896) ; Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 331 ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersavwil. 

 p. 173 (1899) ; von Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv. p. 263 (1900) ; 

 tSharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 175 "(1900). 



Many of the eggs of the Black Ani or Savanna Blackbird are of 

 a deep blue colour ; others are thickly covered with white chalky 

 matter, which becomes scratched or worn away in places and allows 

 the blue shell beneath to be visible. Specimens measure from 1*^G 

 to 1"48 in length, and from -9 to I'l in breadth. 



5. N. America. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



1. .Jamaica {W. Osburn: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



2. Jamaica, 11th Aug. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. .Jamaica. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. .lamaica. Rev. Bariiam Zijicke [P.]. 



1. St. Croix, W. Indies {A. S^- E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Neivton). 



2. St. Croix {A. ^- E. N.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



