312 TANAGRID^. 



Browor records e:?gs with the ground-colour of " a liglit shade of 

 emerald-green, marked with various shades of brown, more or less 

 tinged with lilac, purple and slate." 



3. Near Kansas Citv, Missouri. 18th W. Radcliflfe Saunders, Esq. 



June. ' ' [P.]. 



Pyranga rubra (Linn.). 

 (Plate XIII. fig. 12.) 



Pyranga rubra, Baird, Brewer i^ Ri<hjw. N. Aini>r. Birds, i. p. 43-5 



(1874) ; Salo. ^- Godvi. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Ares,i. p. 287 (1883) ; 



Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 188 (183Li) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 



p. 96 (1899), p. 327 (1910) ; Sliarpe, Hand-l. v. p. 386 (1909). 

 riranga erythromelas, Eidgw. Birds North l^ Middle Amer, ii. p. 88 



(1902). 



The eggs of the Scarlet Tanager are of a broad oval shape and 

 exhibit a small amount of gloss. They are pale greenish-blue, 

 thickly spotted and blotched with pale reddish-brown and lilac- 

 grey. The markings are more numerous as well as larger at the 

 broad end, and in one example form a large ill-defined cap. 

 They measure from '85 to -96 iu length, and from -68 to u'2 in 

 breadth. 



2. North America {Henshmu Coll.). Salviu-Godmam Coll. 



1. Pennsylvania (6'. J. /'«i«ooA-). Princeton Ui iversity, N.J. 



[E.]. 

 1. New Jersey (D. Cr. Elliut : Tris- Crowley Bequest. 

 tram Cull.). 



3. Eastford, Connecticut, 6th June Crowley Bequest. 



(Rev. J. Jor.es). 



4. Ilyds Park, Illinois, 2ud June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Pyranga bidentata, Swains. 



Pyranga bidentata, Scdv. ^- Godin. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aies, i. p. 290 

 (1883); Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 190 (1886) [part.J ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 386 (1909); Nehrk. Eat. Eiersamml. p._327 (1910). _ 



Piranga bidentata bidentata, Ridffiv. Birds North i^ Middle Amer. ii. 

 p. 95 (1902). 



An egg of Swainson's Tanager is of a regular oval shape and 

 slightly glossy. The ground-colour is pale greenish-blue sparingly 

 marked, almost entirely at the larger end, with small spots of 

 purplish-black and lilac-grey. It measures '97 by "72. 



1. Escasu, Costa Pica, lOtli May. Mr. C. F. Underwood [C.]. 



