KUrHAGUS. 



595 



Icterus leucopteryx ( Wa^/l.). 



(Plate XVII. figs. 18 & 21.) 



Icterus leucopteryx, G'osse, Birds Jamaica, p. 226 (1847) ; Scl. Cat. 

 Birds B. M. xi. p. 387 (1886) ; Ridyw. Birds North S,- Middle 

 Amer. ii. p. 303 (1^02) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 505 (1009). 



Eggs of tbe Jamaican Hangnest or Banana-Bird are of a rather 

 pointed oval shape, and almost or qnite devoid of gloss. The 

 ground is pale butfy-white or brownish-white with a tracery of 

 line lines and blotched lines round the cap, one specimen being 

 especially handsomely and boldly marked. Three eggs measure 

 respectively : -98 by -68 ; -96 by -66 ; and '93 by -66. 



1 . Jamaica. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Port Henderson, Jamaica, 27th Crowley Bequest. 



June (C. B. Taylor). 



Genus EUPHAGUS, Cassin. 



Euphagus carolinus (P. L. S. Miill.). 



Scolecophagus ferrugineus, Baird, Brewer Sf Ridyw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. 



p. 203 (1874) ; Banks, Auk, ii. p. 100 (1885; ; Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. 



xi. p. 390 (1886) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamnd. p. 103 (1899). 

 Scolecophagus carolinus, MacFarlane, Proc. U. IS. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 440 



(1891); Bendire, Life-Hist. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 489, pi. vii. 



figs. 14-16 (1895) ; Ridffiv. Birds North .f Middle Amer. ii. p. 246 



(1902). 

 Euphagus carolinus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 506 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eier- 



samml. p. 346 (1910). 



The eggs of the Rusty Grackle are of two types. In one, they 

 are of an ordinary, but somewhat pointed, oval shape, moderately 

 glossy, and pale bluish-green, blotched, smeared and mottled with 

 pale brown or pinkish-brown and lavender-grey. In the second 

 type, the eggs are of a blunt oval shape, almost elliptical, and 

 rather highly glossy. They are greenish-grey, very densely mottled 

 all over with dark brown and dull lavender, little of tbe ground 

 being visible. Eight examples measure from 1 to 1"1 in length, 

 and from -72 to "77 in breadth. 



1. [North-West America] (/./. ylw- Crowley Bequest. 



diibon : Tristram Coll.). 

 3. North-AVest America. (iould Coll. 



1. Anderson Kiver, Arctic America, Salviu-Godmam Coll. 



Juue (R. MacFarlane: Hen- 



s/iaw Coll.). 

 3. Anderson Iviver, Juue {R. MacF.: Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Smiths. In.'^t.). 



