■66 MNIOTILTIBJ;. 



An egg of the Pine-Warbler resembles many of the eggs of D. cestiva. 

 It measures •? by 'o. 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Crowley Bequest. 



DendrcBca discolor, Vieill. 



Dendroica discolor, Baird, Breioer ^- Ridgio. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 276 



(1874). 

 Dendrceca discolor, Cones, Birds N.- West, p. 63 (1874) : Sah. &f Godm. 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 142 (1881) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



X. p. 307 (1885) ; Coues, Auk, 1888, p. 405 ; Nelirk. Kat. Eiersamml. 



p. 89 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 110 (1906). 



The eggs of the Prairie-Warbler vary from a narrow to a broad 

 oval form and are sliglitly glossy. They are white, speckled, spotted 

 and sometimes blotched, chiefly at the broad end, with reddish- 

 brown, purplish-brown, and lavender or lilac. They measure from 

 •62 to "67 in length, and from -46 to '51 in breadth. 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. North America (Ilenshmo Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Con- W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



necticut, 5th July [J. N. [P.] 



Clark). 



Oenus OPORORNIS, Baird. 



Oporornis formosa ( Wih.). 

 (Plate IV. fig. 1.) 



Oporornis formosus, Coues, Birds N.- West, p. 73 (1874) ; Baird, Brewer 



4- Eidffic. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 293 (1874). 

 Oporornis formosa, Salv. S,- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 148 



(1881); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 348 (1885) ; JVehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 89 (1-^99); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. Ill (1906). 



The eggs of the Kentucky Warbler are of a pointed, broad oval 

 form and moderately glossy. They are white, speckled and spotted, 

 rather densely at the broad end, with reddish-brown and lavender. 

 A few larger markings, of the nature of blotches, are scattered over 

 the shell, here and there. Specimens measure from '7 to '8 in 

 length, and from "6 to "62 in breadth. 



2. North America. Crowley Bequest. 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Washington, D.C., loth June (Ben- Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 shaw Coll.). 



1. Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Princeton University, N.J. 



[E.]. 



2. Green Co., Pennsylvania, 28th May W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



(J. W. Jacobs). ' [P.]. 



