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'2. Short Creek, 10th June (G. M. D.). N. Amer. Boundary Comm. 

 2. Short Creek, lOth June ( G. M. D.). N. Amer. Boundary Comm. 

 1. South Dakota, U.S.A., ISth Mav. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



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Genus RHYNCHOPHANES, Baird. 



Rhynchophanes maccowni {Lawr.). 



(Plate XII. %. 3.) 



Plectrophanes maccowni. Baud, Breicer ^- Itidyw. N. Amer. Birds, i. 



p. 523 (1874). 

 Rhvncophanes maccowni, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 589 (188S) ; 

 ' Is^ehrl;. Kat. Eiersmnml. p. 114 (1899) ; Ridyio. Birds North ^-Middle 



Amer. i. p. 165 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 288 (1909). 



Two eggs of Maccown's Bunting are elliptical in shape, and 

 have a considerable amount of gloss. They are pale creamy- or 

 brownish-buff, very indistinctly mottled with pale lavender and 

 grey, and marked with some specks, scratches, scrawls and fine 

 lines of umber-brown. Thev measure respectively : "81 by 'oQ ; 

 •82 by -59. 



2. Traders' Road, 49th Parallel X. Amer. Boundary Comm. 



1(6-'. M. l)awso7i). 



Cal.imospiza bicolor, Baird, Breicer 4'- R'dqic. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 61 

 (1874) ; Coues, Birds N.- West, p. 163 (1874) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xii. p. 593 (1888) ; Nehrk. Eat. Eiersamml. p. 114 (1899). 



Calamospiza melanocorvs, Ridgic. Birds North S; Middle Amer. i. p. 168 

 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 288 (1909). 



Genus CALAMOSPIZA, Bonap. 

 Calamospiza melanocorys, Stejn. 



The eggs of the American Lark-Bunting are of a very broad oval 

 shape and frequently spheroidal. They are very smooth, glossj% 

 and of a pale blue colour. Many eggs are uniform, others are 

 spotted with light rufous at the broad end. They measure from 

 "79 to -9 in length, and from .62 to -7 in breadth. 



4. Near Souris, 49th Parallel, 13th N. Amer. Boundary Comm. 



June (6r. M. Dawson). 



2. 49th Parallel {G. 31. D.). N. Amer. Boundarv Comm. 



4. 49th ParaUel {G. M. D. : Hen- Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



shaiu Cull.). 



1. Dane Co., VVisconsiu ( Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



1. Denver, Colorado, 10th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



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