396 



EuphagTis cyanocephalus ( Wac/L). 



Scolecophagus cyanocephalus, Blahiston, Ibis, 1863, p. 82 ; Baird, 



Brewer &f Bidgw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 206 (1874); Henshaw, Rep. 



Orn. Wheelers Surv. 1874, p. 82; Coues, Birds N.-West, p. 199 



(1874); Scl. (W. iVn/s^. iT/. xi.p.390(1886); Bendire, Life-Hist. 



ISI. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 493, pi. vii, ^gs. 17-20 (189o) ; Kehrk. Kut. 



Eiersamml. p. 103 (1899) ; Ridyic. Birds Korth &■ Middle Amer. ii. 



p. 248 (1902). 

 Eupliagus cyanocephalus, Sharpe, Hcmd-l.y.Tp. 50G (1909); Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 346 (1910). 



The eggs of Brewer's Grackle are of a broad oval form and 

 glossy. They are pale greenish-blue or greenish-grej', marbled, 

 blotched and clouded with several shades of brown and rufous, 

 and also marked with spots, small blotches and short lines of deep 

 chocolate or purplish-brown. The ground-colour is smeared in 

 places with lilac or lavender. In one set of four eggs from 

 California the ground in two is pale blue, one being vinmarked, 

 while the other one has only a few short black hair-lines and small 

 blotches of purplish-black ; the remaining t\^o eggs are pale greyish- 

 blue, somewhat smeared with brownish and with a few blotches 

 or twisted lines as in eggs of Quiscalus quiscalus (see p. 397). 

 Examples measure from -Qo to 1-05 in length, and from '61 to "8 

 in breadth. 



5. North America {Field Coll.). W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



1. Carlton, N. America, 25th May Sal viu-Godman Coll. 



{T. JV. Blakiston). 



4. Fort Benton, N. America (<S'?rt2V^5. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Head -waters of the Missouri, Crowley Bequest. 



27tl) June ( IF. F. Raynolds : 

 Tristram Coll.). 



5. Fort Garland, Colorado {H. If. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



IIe)i.s/imv). 



2. Nevada, 21st May (H. W. H.) Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Woodland, California, 31st May W. Radclitie Saunders, Esq. 



{A. M.higersoll). [P.]. 



3. SanFrauciscOjCalifornia, 1st June Crowley Bequest. 



{A. J. Burrows). 



5. Santa Cruz, California, 5th Nov. \V. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



{A. M. I.) [P.]. 



5. San r)iego, California, 15th Mav W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



(//. M. ConviUe). ' [P.]. 



2. Mexico. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus DIVES, Cassin. 



Dives dives (Licht.). 



(Plate XVIII. figs. 3 & 4.) 



I>ampropsar dives, Boucnrd, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 446. 



Dives sumichrasti, Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 392 (1886) ; Salv. ^- Godm. 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aies, i. p. 481 (1887) ; Xehrk. Eat. Eiersamml. 



p. 103 (1899). 



