165 



measure from "65 to -71 in length, and from '49 to 'ol 



breadth. 



1. Havana, Cuba (rm^rrtw Co//.). CrowJey Bequest. 



~. Cuba. Crowley Bequest, 



o. Jamaica. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



6. Jamaica. Salvhi-Godman Coll. 



Euethia pusilla (>Swaiiis.). 

 (Rate IX. fig. 16.) 



Phouipara pusilla, Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 507 ; Salv. S; Godm. 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aues, i. p. 359 (1885) ; SAarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xii. p. 147 (1888) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 106 (1899). 

 Euethia olivacea pusilla, Ridgw. Birds North iV Middle Amer. i. p. 534 



(1901). 

 Euethia pusilla, Sharpe^ Hand-I. v. p. 21G (1908). 



The eggs of the Mexican Grassquit are inseparable from those 

 of I'j. olivacea and E. marclii. Four examples measure respectively : 

 •7 by "52 ; -67 by -5 ; "67 by 5 ; -65 by -5. 



1. Mexico {Gould Coll.: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 

 1. Irazu, Costa Kica, 30th July. C. F. Underwood [C.]. 



'2. Medellin, Antioquia, U.S. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Colombia (7'. K. Salmon). 



Euethia omissa, Jard. 



Phouipara bicolor, A. S,- E. Neioton, Ibis, 1859, p. 147, pi. xii. fig. 2; 



Lairrence, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 58 (1878) ; Sharps, Cat. Birds 



B. M. xii. p. 149 (1888) [part.]. 

 Euethia bicolor, Verrill, Trans. Conn. Ac. Sci. viii. p. 338 (1892). 

 Euethia bicolor omissa, Ridgw. Birds North c^ Middle Amer. i. p. 538 



(Uioi). ■ 



Euethia omissa, Sharpe, Hand-l. t. p. 216 (1908). 



Twelve eggs of the Carib Grassquit are of a regular oval shape 

 and arc almost devoid of gloss. Nine of tliem resemble those of 

 E. oJivacen, but the remainiug three have the entire shell finely 

 mottled and clouded with dull brick-red, the markings being densest 

 towards the larger end. They measure from '65 to *69 in length, 

 and from '47 to -52 in breadth. 



3. St. Croix, West Indies (.4. S)- E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Newton). 

 3. St. Croix {A. (§• E. N). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. St. Croix (A. !^- E. N. : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



CoU.). 

 3. St. Vincent, W. I. {3Irs. H. H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Smith). 



