MOLOTHRUS. 



375 



The egf^s of the Argentiae Cow-bird are of an extremely short, 

 broad oval form, many spocimens being spheroidal, and they possess 

 a considerable amount of gloss. They are very variable in colour. 

 Jifany are plain white ; others are white marked with specks of" grey 

 or faint lavender ; others are white or cream-colour, densely 

 speckled with chestnut and lavender ; and others again are not 

 only speckled as in these last, but are also heavily blotched, 

 espoci;illy at the broad end, with deep chestnut-red and purplish- 

 grc}'. They measure from '8 to 1 in length, and from "7 to '8 in 

 breadth. 



2. TirazW {Nehrhorn Coll. : Tristram 



Coll.). 

 1. Brazil (with 2 eggs of Brachij- 



tipiza inleuta, see p. 270). 

 1. Brazil (with 3 eggs of B . pileata) . 

 1. Brazil (with 3 eggs of B. pileata). 

 1. Brazil ( wiili 4 q^^a of B. pileata). 



1. Brazil (with 3 eggs of B. pileata). 



19. Argentine Republic, Sept.-Dec. 



6. Argentine Tlepublic. 



5. Argentine Republic ( W. H. Hud- 

 son). 



8. Buenos Ayres ( W. H. II.) (with 

 1 egg ot Milvitlux ti/runnus). 



3. Buenos Ayres (with egg of 



Brachysjiiza pileata) . 



2. But'.nos Ayres (with &^<r of 



Milculiis ti/ranniis) . 



2. Bueno3 Ayres (.with egg of 31. 



tyrannus). 



3. Buenos Ayres (with 3 eggs of 



Fseitdoleistes virescens, see p. 383) . 

 1. Buenos Ayres (with 4 eggs of 

 1\ virescens). 



1. Buenos Ayres (with 2 eggs of 



Antlius currendera, see p. 108). 



2. Bueno3 Ayres (with 5 eggs of 



Serpliopliai/a ii iyricam). 



3. Buenos Ayres. 



17. Buenos Ayres ( W. II. II.). 



1. Ajo, Buenos Ayres, 13th Nov. 



(C. U. B. Grant) i^with 3 eggs 

 of Bracln/spiza pileata). 

 5. Ajo, 9th i)ec. (C. JI B. G.) (in 

 nest q{ B. pileata). 



2. Ajo, 18th Jan. ( C. H. B. G.) (with 



2 eggs of B. pileata). 

 1. Ajo, 29th Dec. ( C. II. B. G.) (with 

 8 eygs of M. rufo-u.villaris in 

 nest of ^1/. hadius, bailt inside 

 an old nest oi Anumbius acitti- 

 caudus, see p. 377). 



Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 W. Radclilie Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 



P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 



W. II. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 



W. II. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 



W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 



W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 



W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 



W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 



W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 



W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Ernest Gibson, Esq. [P.]. 



Ernest Gibson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Ernest Gibson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Ernest Gibson, Esq. [P.]. 



