GEOTHLYPIS. — ICTEPaA. 69 



Geotlilypis cucuUata {Lath.). 



Geotlilypis velata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 3G3 (1885) ; Scl 8,- 

 Muds. Argent. Orn. i. p, 20 (1888) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 90 

 (1899) ; von Iherinff, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv. p. 203 (1900). 



Geotlilypis cucullata, Sharpe, Iland-l. v. p. 116 (1906). 



Two eggs of the Veiled Wood-singer are of an ordinary oval 

 shape and exhibit a small amount of gloss. They are white, 

 spotted and blotched, almost entirely at the broad end where the 

 markings form a confluent cap, with brownish-pink, deep purplish- 

 red, and lilac. They measure respectively : -72 by '51 ; '7 by ■52. 



2. Argentiue Republic. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus ICTERIA, Vmll. 



Icteria viridis (Gmel.). 

 (Plate lY. fig. 7.) 



Icteria vireus, Buird, Brewer S)- Bkhjio. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 307 (1874). 

 Icteiia viridis, Stilv. S,- Godm. Biol. Cenfr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 157 (1881); 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. 3J. x. p. .'173 (1885) ; Kehrk. Kat. Eiersaviml. 



p. 90 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 117 (1906). 



The eggs of the Yellow breasted Warbler are of a blunt oval form 

 and exhibit a small amount of gloss. They are white, spotted and 

 blotched with reddish-brown and lavender, the markings being 

 larger and often confluent at the broad end, where they form an 

 irregular zone or thin cap. Specimens measure from "81 to "Dl in 

 length, and from "G to -7 in breadth. 



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

 10. North America {Henshntc Coll.). Sahiii-Godiuan Coll. 



3. Neosho Falls, Kansas {B. F. Goss: Crowley Bequest. 

 S7niths. I7isf.). 



3. Washington, loth June {Hcnshaw Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Coll.). 



4. New Jersey {D. G. Elliot). Crowley Bequest. 



2. New Jersey, 14th June (with two Princeton Univei'sity, N.J. 



eggs of Molothnis pecoris). \J^-\ 



6. New Haven, Connecticut, 10th W. Kadclifte Saunders, Esq. 



July. [P.]. 



1. Virsi-iuia {Trii,tra?n Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Icteria longicauda, Lawr. 



Icteria vlrens, var. longicauda, Baii-d, Brewer ^- Ridyio. N. Amer. Birds, 



i. p. 309 (1874). 

 Icteria longicauda, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 375 (1885) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml. p. 90 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hund-l. v. p. 118 (1906). 



Eggs of the Long-tailed Yellow-breasted Warbler do not appear 



