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.77 x .54. They are of a bluish-green color, marked with spots of 

 brown and dull purple, chiefly around the larger end. 



2. The same day I found another nest, containing four eggs, 

 which had been incubated about the same length of time as the 

 former. This was placed on one of the topmost branches of an 

 alder-tree fifty feet high. Framework of fine stems, among them 

 Scrophularia ; also a few pine roots ; inner portions of fine fibres, 

 lined with wool and hair. The ground-color of eggs is similar to 

 that of set No. 1 ; the markings, however, are quite different, being 

 of a dull brownish-purple, minute and confluent, forming a ring 

 around the end of two eggs, and a large spot on the end of the 

 remaining two, one of the latter being also spotted over the entire 

 surface, less abundantly than on the end ; they measure .83 x .57, 

 .81 x.56, .81 x.56, .80x.54. 



3. May 3, 1876, I found a nest with four fresh eggs. It was 

 placed twenty feet from the ground, in a thick bunch of willow 

 sprouts, near a small creek. The female bird was on the nest, and 

 would not leave till I almost touched her. The eggs are of a light 

 emerald-green color, spotted similarly to those of set No. 1, the 

 markings forming a more decided ring around the end ; the form is 

 more pointed, and the ground-color is deeper than in sets one and 

 two. Measurements, .75 x .55, .73 x .56, .72 x .56, .71 x .57. The 

 framework of the nest consists entirely of Scrophularia ; the inner 

 nest of roots and bark, lined with fine bark and hair. 



4. May, 1875, George H. Ready found a nest containing four 

 fresh eggs. The nest, similar to those above described, was placed 

 on a horizontal branch of an apple-tree in Mission Orchard. 

 These eggs are of an emerald-green color, and are more pointed 

 than any of the other specimens ; the markings are finer than 

 those of sets one and three, and darker, some being almost black ; 

 a perfect ring is formed around the end of each, and the whole sur- 

 face of one is spotted. They measure, .80 x .59, .77 x .58, .77 x .56, 

 .76 x .57. 



I have on several occasions seen these Finches in trees wherein 

 were nests of C. frontalis. The most faded egg I have is much 

 more deeply colored than any egg I have ever seen of Cyanospiza 

 cyanea. The markings are always plentiful, forming a ring around 

 the end of many specimens. The only egg I have of Carpodacus 

 purpureus is hardly distinguishable from those of var. californicus. 



I may here add that Carpodacus purpureus var. californicus is 



