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slightl}' gloss}'. Tlie ground-colour is pale greenish-white, finely 

 tipottcd all over with reddish-brown and with underlying small 

 blotches and spots of violet-grey, the markings being most numerous 

 round the larger end. They measure from '71 to "72 in length, and 

 from '53 to '55 in breadth, 



4. San Diego, California, 12th April W. Eadclifte Saunders, Esq. 

 (O. W.Kniyht). [P.]. 



Amphispiza nevadensis, R'ulyw. 

 (Plate XII. fig. 20.) 



Poospiza belli, var. nevadensis, Baird, Bre^cer ^ Rid</iv. K. Amer. Birds, 



i. p. 594 (1874). 

 Amphispiza nevadensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 630 (1888) ; id. 



Hand-l. V. p. 301 (1!X)9;. 

 Amphispiza belli nevadensis, Henshaw, Hep. Wheeler''s Surv. 1879, 



p. 296 ; Ridyic. Birds J^orth 8f Middle Amer. i. p. 270 (1901). 



Four eggs of the Sage-&parrow are of a rather lengthened oval 

 form and moderately glossy. They are very pale green, speckled 

 ;ind blotched with pale reddish-brown and purplish-grey. The 

 markings are most frequent at the broad end, where they are more 

 or less conflueut and form a wide zone. In addition, the eggs have 

 a few blotches and scrawls of very dark reddish-brown, almost 

 black, scattered over their surface. They measure respectively : 

 •8 by -57 ; -75 by -57 ; -82 by "57 ; -79 by -57. 



4. Reno, Nevada, 25th May (//. W. Salvin-Godmau Coll 

 Henshaw). 



Genus POOSPIZA, Cah. 



Poospiza melanoleuca (I)' Orb. <Sf Lafr.). 



(Plate XII. fig. 11.) 



Poospiza melanoleuca, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 638 (1888) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Riersaimtd. p. 115 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hund-l. v. p. 302 

 (1909). 



Two eggs of the White-and-Grey Warbling-Finch are of a rather 

 pointed oval shape and somewhat glossy. They are white, sparingly 

 spotted, chiefly round the larger end, where the markings form 

 an irregular zone, with brownish-black and lilac-grey. They 

 measure respectively "75 by "53 and "73 by '55. 



2. Argentina. Crowley Bequest. 



