2.56 VIEEONID.^. AMrELID.^. 



The eggs of Bell's Grcenlet in the Collection are verj' faintlj' 

 speckled with rul'ous at the broad end only. They measure re- 

 spectively : -7 by -5 ; -68 by -5. 



2. Texas. Crowley Bequest. 



Vireo modestus, Sd. 



(Plate XI. fig. 12.) 



Vireo novehoracensis (iiec Gm.), Gonse, Birds Jamaica, p. 193 (1847). 

 Vireo modestus, Gadoiv, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 303 (1883) ; SJiarpe, 

 Hand-l. iv. p. 2o2 (1903). 



The eggs of the Plain Greenlet differ from those of the other 

 species of Greeulets in being very boldly marked, the s^wts and 

 blotches forming a strongly-defined band round or about the broad 

 ■end. Two examples measure respectively : -78 by '55 ; -79 by '57. 



2. Kingston, .Jamaica, l£th May Crowley Bequest. 



{C.B.Taylor). 



Family AMPELID^. 



Genus AMPELIS, Linn. 

 Ampelis garrulus, Linn. 



Bonibycilla garrula, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 52. fig. 20 (185o-6o) ; 



Wolley, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 5o, Aves, pi. cxxii. ; von Nordm. J. f. O. 



1858, p. 307, 1859, taf. i. figs, a, b; Wheelwright, A Spring and 



Summer in Lapland, p. 279 (1871). 

 Ampelis garrulus, Neiutun, Ibis, 1861, p. 92, pi. iv. ; Dresser, Birds Eur. 



iii. p. 429 (1873); Seehohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 3, pi. 11 (1884); 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 212 (1885) ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 233, pi. 54, fig. 19 (1896) ; Wolletj ^ Neioton, Ootheca 



Wolleijana, pt. ii. p. 212, pi. x. (1902) ; Sharpe, Iland-l. iv. p. 259 



(1903). 



Eggs of the Waxwing are of a regular oval shape, but some 

 specimens have the smaller end compressed and pointed. They 

 have a moderate amount of gloss. They are greyish blue, sometimes 

 with an olive tinge, very distinctly spotted all over with black or 

 deep blackish brown and underlying lavender-grey. Some of the 

 darker spots have their edges blurred and running into the sur- 

 rounding ground-colour. The markings, in all the examples in the 

 Collection, are remarkably evenly spread over the whole shell and 

 there is never any tendency for them to form a cap at the broad 

 end of the egg. Specimens measure from '86 to 1"02 in length, 

 and from -65 to '7 in breadth. 



1. Lapland {J. WolleiJ). Seebohm Coll. 



J. Lapland {J. IF.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Lapland, 12th June (J. W.). Seebohm Coll. 



