Sl'OKnTllir.A. IGil 



Egg:.? of the Screaming Sccil-eater are of a rather long oval 

 form and almost devoid of gloss. The ground-colour is white or 

 bluish-white, and the markings in most of the specimens are similar 

 to those of -S'. moreletl described above. A set of five eggs from the 

 Crowley Collection differs considerably, being heavih* marked with 

 chocolate-brown blotches and markings, chiefly distributed around 

 the larger end. The measurements vary from "62 to •~1 in length, 

 and from '47 to "5 in breadth. 



0. Brazil (Nehrkorn Coll. ; Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 

 4. [Brazil.] AV. Radcliife Saunders, Esq. 



[P-] 



1. Argentina. Crowley Bequest. 

 1. Buenos Ayres. Crowley Bequest. 



Sporophila gutturalis (Licht.). 

 (Plate IX. fig. 13.) 



Spermophila gutturalis, Layard, Ibis, 1873, p. o80 ; Scl. S,- Sah: P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 507 ; Salv. i^- Godtii. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 354 



(1885) : Sharjye, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 128 (1888) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml. p. 105 (1899) ; Iliering, Rev. Mas. Paulista, iv. 



p. 213 (1900). 

 Sporophila gutturalis, Ridgw. Birds North Sf Middle Amer. i. p. 569 



(1901) ; Skarpe, Hand-L v. p. 212 (1908). 



Eggs of the Yellow-bellied Seed-eater are of an elongate oval 

 shape and devoid of gloss. Six are pale greenish-white, sparingly 

 marked with small blotches and some lines of chocolate-brown and 

 densely streaked, smeared and clouded with purplish-brown and 

 purplish-grey. In one specimen the markings are mostly concen- 

 trated round the larger end where they form a dense reddish-umber- 

 brown cap. They measure from "65 to '71 in length, and from 

 •48 to -51 in breadth. 



2. Medellin, Antioquia, U.S. Colombia Salviu-Godmau ColL 



(T. K. Salmon). 

 5. Medelliu {Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Sporophila iineola {Linn.). 



Spei-mophiJa Iineola, Skarpe, Cat. Birds B. 31. xii. p. 131 (1888) ; Xeftrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml. p. 106 ( 1899). 

 Sporophila Iineola, Skarpe, Hand-l. v. p. 213 (1908). 



An egg of the Guiana Seed-eater is similar to the first type of 

 S. gutturalis described above. It measures -7 by -49. 



1. Cayenne (Tristram Coll.), Crowlev Bequest. 



