Mar. 1888.] 



AND OOLOGIST. 



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Collected by John B. Wheeler. Female taken. 

 Nest situated in hemlock tree, about forty foet 

 from the ground, iu a deep wooded ravine. 

 Three eggs, fresh ; light grayish white ground 

 color. Xo. 1. Marked all over the surface 

 with light pearl gray spots, more or less dis- 

 tinct. Near the larger end there are a few 

 spots of ecru drab, but the general effect of the 

 egg at a short distance is that it is entirely 

 unmarked; 1.4'.)xM7. No. 2. Spotted and 

 blotched all over the surface with russet and 

 lavender-gray: 1.24x1.16. No. 3. Spotted and 

 blotched with chestnut and russet. The mark- 

 ings arc much heavier at the larger end, where 

 they become continent. There are also a few 

 light pearl gray spots: 1.47x1.14. 



Set IV. .May 22, 1882. Preston, Conn. Col- 

 lected by ".f. M. W."' Nest an old one, in tall 

 pine, in heavy pine grove. Small female, very 

 wild. Thirty other trees with old nests exam- 

 ined later but no second clutch found. Four 

 eggs, fresh ; very light bluish white ground 

 color. No. 1. T'he ground color of this egg h:is 

 more of a bluish tinge than any of the otheis. 

 Entirely unmarked save for a very few and in- 

 distinct fawn colored spots near the smaller 

 end: 1..50xl.l6. No. 2. Spotted very indis- 

 tinctly with russet near the smaller end. The 

 remainde)- of the surface is entirely unmarked : 

 1.44x1.15. Xo. 3. Spotted and blotched with 

 burnt umber and fawn color. The markings 

 form an indistinct band around the egg at its 

 greatest circumference, but there are also a few 

 near the smaller end. No. 4. Spotted and 

 blotched with chestnut. The markings are 

 much heavier near the larger end, where they 

 become continent and almost cover the surface : 

 1.4.-) X 1.18. 



Set V. June 2, 1880. Northampton C^ouuty, 

 Penn. Collected by Theodore Roth. Four 

 eggs, incubation begun; light bluish white 

 ground color. No. 1. Marbled and spotted, 

 principally at the larger end, with burnt um- 

 ber: 1.47xl.l(!. No. 2. Spotted and blotched 

 with burnt umber, more heavily at the smaller 

 end: 1.40x1.17. No. 3. Blotched with burnt 

 umber: 1.4;ixl.20. No. 4. Sjjotted and blotched 

 with burnt umber: l..oOxl.2U. 



Set VI. June 6, 1881. Ledyard, .New Lon- 

 don County, Conn. Collected by "J. M. VV." 

 Old nest, re-touched in hemlock, in grove of 

 pines and hemlocks. Both parents shot at nest. 

 Female as large as Aixipitej' coope.ri. Five eggs, 

 incubation begun; dull grayish white ground 

 color. No. 1. Spotted and blotched, i)rincipally 

 at the larger end, with burnt umbei- : 1 .."iS x 1.23. 

 No. 2. Spotted with burnt umber and fawn col- i 



or, over most of the surface: 1.56x1.2.5. No. 

 3. Spotted and blotched with burnt umber and 

 fawn color. The markings are heavier near the 

 smaller end: 1.58x1.22. No. 4. Streaked and 

 spotted, more heavily at the smaller end, with 

 burnt umber and traces of pearl-gray: 1.55 x 

 1.20. No. 5. Spotted and blotched with burnt 

 umber. The maikings are much heavier near 

 the smaller end, where they form an indistinct 

 wreath: 1.53x1.23. This set has all the eggs 

 of an unusually large size for this species. 



Set VII. April 11, 1879. Knox County, Ohio. 

 Collected by A. G. Nest in a hemlock about 

 twenty-five feet from the ground. Bird seen to 

 tly from nest. Five eggs, fresh; grayish white 

 ground color. No. 1. Spotted and blotched 

 with burnt innber, forming an indistinct band 

 around the centre of the egg: 1.04x1.25. No. 

 2. Spotted and blotched with burnt umber and 

 cinnamon. The markings are much heavier 

 near the centre of the egg: 1.64x1.24. No. 3. 

 .Spotted and blotched with burnt umber. One 

 of the blotches is very large, and is near the 

 centre of the egg: l.,55xl.25. No. 4. Blotched 

 with burnt umber, heavier and closer together 

 near the centre of the egg: 1.00x1.25. Re- 

 markably large eggs for this species. In fact 

 both this set and .set VI nuist be regarded as 

 ([uite phenomenal in size. 



Set VIII. June 1, 1881. Preston, New Lon- 

 don County, Conn. Collected by "J. M. W." 

 Small nest, only ten feet from the ground, in a 

 low pine tree. Seven eggs, fresh. Nest dis- 

 covered with one egg on May 20th. Not visited 

 again until June 1st, when the female was found 

 covering this large clutch. Grayish white 

 groundcolor. No. 1. Beautifully blotched, al- 

 most wholly at the larger end, with chestnut. 

 The markings are confluent and almost entirely 

 cover the larger end of the egg: 1.48x1.27. 

 No. 2. Clouded and blotched with chestnut, al- 

 most entirely over the whole surface: 1.44 x 

 1.15. Xo. 3. Almost spherical, clouded and 

 blotched with chestnut: 1.35x1.22. No. 4. 

 Beautifully blotched and clouded with chest- 

 nut, over the whole surface, more or less : 1.44 

 xl.20. No. 5. Clouded, blotched and speckled 

 with chestimt, more heavily near the smaller 

 end; 1.45x1.15. No. 6. Clouded and blotched 

 with chestnut. The markings become conflu- 

 ent near the smaller end: 1.48x1.18. No. 7. 

 Blotched and clouded with chestnut, more 

 heavily near the smaller end : 1.49 x 1.10. 



Set IX. May 17, 1883. Blue Mountains, 

 Northampton County, Penn. Collected by 

 Sbriner. Nest in fork of white pine tree, about 

 thirty-six feet from the ground. Four eggs, 



