OSTINOPS. — CACICTJ3. 



Nehrk Ka Eiersamml. p. 99 (1899), p. 340 (1910); EuL, Rev 



nidi ^S^' ^^/^w-. i?^n/. North .5- Middle Amer. ii. p. 184 

 (1902); .S/;«;7je, Ifaw^-/. V. p. 485 (1909). ^ 



The eggs of the Crested Ha.ignest are of a regular oval shape, 

 slightly glossy and of coarse texture. They appear to be very 

 variable m colour. Two specimens have the ground white and 

 two others have it pale greenish-blue, and they are both 

 sparingly spotted and blotched with deep black and lilac Two 

 her examples are pale pinkish-white mottled and smeare'd with 

 lilac-grev • In addition, one is covered with a close tracery of fine 

 purplish-brown lines, and the other is marked with a few blackish 

 spots and blotches and some irregular lines of purplish-grev Thev 

 measure from 1-25 to 1-4 in length, and from -9 to 1 in br;adth. 



1. U.S.Colombia Crowley Bequest. 



2. Remedios Antioquia, U.S. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Colombia (T. K. Salmon). 



\ I- K*'^-°- Dr. W. F. Brehot [P.]. 



^- ^^^-^^'i^- Dr. W. F. Brehot [P. j. 



Ostinops salmoni, Sdater. 

 \ ^'*' fi?g' atrocastaneus, Scl. 4- S<ih. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 509, pi. xliii. 



Ostinojis salmoni, Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 317 (188fi) ; Nehrk Eat 

 -E™.»./. p. 99 (1899), p. 341 (1910)^ -S^^,, Hanctl.:^^Si 



The eggs of Salmon's Hangnest are of a narrow oval shape, with- 

 out gloss and shghtly coarse in texture. They are of two t^e 

 - In t^he first they are pinkish-white, blotched and smeared with Iwo 

 I shades of sepia-brown and with underlying lavender-grey In the 

 second the eggs are salmon-pink, spotted and mottled with pa e 

 ; reddish-brown and lilac-grey, and marked, in addition, wllh a few 



! !!'i%'' ,'^"1' °^ '^'f P purplish-brown. They measure from 1-37 

 to 1-5 in length, and from -94 to 1 in breadth. 



I 1. U.S. Colombia. Crowlev Beque>t. 



' ■ 'Tr;«tr;.Ti;^;t, ^^■vi.-Goa,!,,. con. 



\^±. Ii.. O.J. toalviu-Godmau Coll. 



Genus CACICUS, Lacej^dde. 



Cacicus persicus (Linn.). 



Cassicus persicus &/. ^- Salo PZ. S 1873, p. 20G; Zayard, Ihis, 1873 



p. 381 ; Scl. Cat. Buds B M. xi. p. 321 (188G) ; An, Bull. An J- 



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