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hitter is a very striking egg. The larger end 

 and abont lialf of the sides are almost 

 entirely unmarked, while the smaller end is 

 almost wholly covered with very large blotches 

 of chestnut. Thus the smaller half of the egg 

 is almost entirely chestnut and the larger half 

 unmarked. The effect is very odd: 2.2.5 x 1.69; 

 2.30x1.74; 2.25x1.74. 



Set XSrn. January 15, 1800. (This is not 

 a mistake, it is the correct date when this 

 remarkable set of eggs was taken.) Bay 

 Hundie, Florida. Nest in black mangrove, 

 six feet up. Made of sticks and lined with 

 grass and leaves. Two eggs, fresh. One of 

 them buffy yellow, evenly spotted and blotched 

 with russet; the other has a pure white ground 

 color and three-fourths of the surface is 

 unmarked. At the larger end there are a 

 number of confluent spots of chestnut. This 

 is a rare type of coloration for this species: 

 2.45x1.78; 2.41x1.80. 



Set XXIV. June 2, 1881. Cobb's Island, 

 Va. Three eggs. Buffy yellow, heavily 

 spotted and blotched with chestnut and 

 purplish gray : 2.:3(ixl.79; 2.2!) x 1.74;2.:»x 1.80. 

 Two of these eggs are marked at the smaller 

 ends more heavily, and one of them exhibits 

 the curious coloration often seen on eggs of 

 the Caracara Eagle {Polyborus clieriway) where 

 one color appears to be overlaid by that of a 

 darker tint. 



Set XXV. May 26, 1885. Cobb's Island, 

 Va. Nest in pine tree. Four eggs, incubation 

 advanced. Buffy yellow, heavily spotted and 

 blotched with chestnut: 2.:«lxl.81; 2.37x1.8:5; 

 2.55x1.77; 2.43x1.78. Four eggs are very 

 unusual for the Osprey. 



Set XXVI. May 29, 1886. Cape May Court 

 House, N. J. Two eggs, fresh. One of them 

 buffy white and the other buffy yellow; both 

 heavily spotted and blotched with chestnut 

 and hazel. The latter color is overlaid in 

 places by the chestnut. There are .also a few 

 spots of purplish gray : 2.48x1.79; 2.66x1.83. 



.Set XXVII. May 5, 1887. Shelter Island, 

 X. Y. Nest in buttouwood tree about forty 

 feet up. Three eggs, inculialion commenced. 

 Buft'y yellow, very heavily spotted and 

 blotched with burnt umber and purplish gray: 

 2.39x1.79; 2.:?4xl.80; 2.;Wxl.80. One of the 

 eggs has the smaller end entirely covered with 

 the blotches, totally obscuring the ground 

 color. 



Set XXVIII. May 6, 1882. Shelter Island, 

 N. Y. Nest in white oak, eighteen feer, up. 

 Three eggs. Two of them have a butfy white 

 ground color, blotched and spotted with 



chestnut, hazel and burnt umber. The third 

 has a ground color of vinaceous-cinnanion, 

 blotched and spotted with hazel: 2.33x1.74; 

 2.:58xl.80; 2.:J8xl.79. The contrast between 

 two of the eggs and the third (the one with 

 the vinaceons-cinn.anum) is remarkable, but 

 contrasts etpially striking are f<niud in many 

 sets. 



Set XXIX. May 29, 1886. Cape May Court 

 House, N. J. Nest twelve feet up on end of 

 an inverted tree. Two eggs, fresh. Buffy 

 yellow; the smaller ends almost unmarked, 

 but the remaining part^ of the eggs are heavily 

 spotted and blotched with chestnut and 

 purplish gray: 2.21x1.58; 2.21x1.62. Very 

 small eggs for this species. 



Set XXX. May 20, 1883. Shelter Island, 

 N. Y. Nest on the rjrannfJ, under a cedur bush. 

 Three eggs. Butt'y yellow, heavily spotted 

 and blotched all over the surface with chest- 

 nut and purplish gray. One of the eggs also 

 has some spots of burnt sienna, and on another 

 egg the martings are not confluent at the 

 larger end, and do not obscure the giound 

 color as is usual for them to do: 2.28x1.72; 

 2.:38xl.77; 2.:58xl.77. 



Set XXXI. May 29, 1886. Cape May Court 

 House, N. J. Three eggs, fresh. This is a 

 very peculiar set. The ground color is a light 

 buffy yellow. One of the eggs is spotted (not 

 blotched) with hazel, and the others are 

 heavily spotted and blotched with chestnut 

 and burnt umber. One of the latter has the 

 chestnut with much less gloss than usual: 

 2.:52xl.83: 2.44x1.84; 2.49x1.81. 



Set XXXII. May 8, 187-'. Carver's Ilai bor, 

 M.aine. Nest on top of spruce tree, twenty- 

 five feet up. Three eggs, flesh. Buffy yellow, 

 heavily blotched and spotted with chestnut 

 and purplish gray. It is somewhat remark- 

 able that .although the latter color is on 

 almost all specimens of the eggs of this 

 bird it is not noticeable on most of tlum 

 unless looked for. This is undoubtedly owing 

 to the greater quantity of rich chestnut and 

 also to the superior brilliancy of the latter 

 color: 2.40x1.89; 2.:Wxl.80; 2..i6xl.82. 



Set XXXIII. May 18, 1882. Shelter Island, 

 N. Y. Nest thirty feet up in white oak. 

 Three eggs. One of them a bully white, 

 blotched and spotted with cinnani(ui and 

 burnt umber. (.\ rare type of coloration ) 

 The other two are butt'y yellow, heavily spotted 

 and blotched with chestnut: 2.:!4xl.76; 

 2.:?6xl.75; 2.45 x 1.76. 



Set XXXIV. May 29, 1886. Cape May 

 Court House, N. J. Xest in dead pine tree. 



