160 fri>!gillid.t:. 



larger end -where the markings form a dense cap. They measure 

 respectively -82 by -o-l and -82 by -56. 



2. Grenada [J. G. Wells). Crowley Bequest. 



Pyrrhulagra barbadensis, Cory. 



Loxigilla barbadensis, Cory, Auk, iii. p. 382 (1880) ; Feilden, Ibis, 1889, 



p. 483. 

 Loxigilla noctis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 84 (1888) [part.]. 

 Pyrrhulagra barbadensi.s, Ridgic. Birds North ^- Middle Amer. i. p. 5G1 



(1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 206 (1908). 



Six eggs of the Barbados Grosbeak are of a rather narrow oval 

 shape and devoid of gloss. They are white, speckled and blotched 

 with pale reddish-brown and underlying violet-grey. The markings 

 generally form a broad zone round the larger end of the Q%g. They 

 measure from "77 to -S in length, and from -55 to '6 in breadth. 



3. Barbados, l-5th May. Col. H. W. Feilden [P.]. 

 3. Barbados, 18th May. Col. H. W. Feilden [P.]. 



Genus LOXIIPASSER, Bnjant. 

 Loxiipasser anoxanthus (Gosse). 



Spermophila anoxantha, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 247 (1847). 



Loxigdla anoxantha, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 85 (1888) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml. p. lUo (1899). 

 Loxipasser anoxanthus, Ridgio. Birds North Sf Middle Amer. i. p. 546 



(1901). 

 Loxiipasser anoxanthus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 207 (1908). 



Eggs of the Yellow-shouldered Grass-quit are of an oval shape 

 and without gloss. They are white, speckled and blotched, more 

 thickly on the broader half of the egg than elsewhere, with pale 

 reddish-brown and underlying grey. They measure from "7 to "77 

 in length, and from -ol to "57 in breadth. 



5. Jamaica. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



1. Jamaica ( W . Osburn : Tiistram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



Genus SPOROPHILA, Cah. 



Sporophila grisea (Gmel.). 



(Plate IX. fig. 9.) 



Spermophila grisea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 96 (1888). 

 Sporophila grisea, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 208 (1908). 



Four eggs of the Venezuelan Seed-eater are of an almost perfect 

 oval shape and slightly glossy. In three the ground-colour is 

 white, blotched and spotted all over with reddish- or purplish-brown 

 and lilac-grey and with a few scattered spots of dark brown. In 



