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Tliiee eggs, fresli. Buffy yellow, one of tliem 

 having tliree-fourtlis of the surface almost 

 entirely unspotted and the other end covered 

 with chestnut (a rare type of coloration), the 

 other two heavily spotted and blotched with 

 chestnut and purplish gray: 2.49x1.81; 

 2.44 X 1.76; 2.4.5x1.81!. 



Set XSXV. May 20, 1880. Cape May 

 Court House, N. .J. Nest in dead pine. Three 

 eijgs, iric ibation far advanced. Buffy yellow, 

 blotched and spotted with chestnut and pur- 

 plish gray: 2.4()X 1.74; 2.4.!> x 1.":!; 2..50x 1.7(3. 



Set XXXVI. May 29, 1880. Cape May 

 Court House, N. J. Nest in dead pine. Three 

 eggs, fresh. A very peculiar set. The ground 

 color of two of them is buffy yellow. One of 

 these is marked with spots and blotches of 

 chestnut, but the egg looks as if most of the 

 color had been bleached off. (Perhap.s tlii.s 

 effect was proiluced by the chemicals in the 

 damp sea-weed with which the nest was lined.) 

 The other egg is spotted with russet and 

 chestnut, the latter color overlaying the former 

 on parts of the surface. The thiid egg is very 

 light buffy yellow, sparingly spotted with 

 chestnut and purplish gray, and not having 

 the larger end covered with confluent spots as 

 is usual for this species: 2.20x1.79: 2.44x1.81; 

 2.A0X 1.82. 



Set XXXVII. May 10, 1882. Gardiner's 

 I.sland. X. Y. Nest in tupelo tree, twenty-five 

 feet up. Three eggs, buffy yellow, heavily 

 l)lotched and spotted with chestnut and pur- 

 plish gra., : 2.39 x 1.7:5; 2..S1 x 1.79; 2..38 x 1.78, 



Set XXXVIII. May 0,1882. Shelter Island, 

 N. Y. Nest twenty-five feet up in a willow. 

 Three eggs Buffy yellow, very heavily 

 blotched and spotted with chestnut and pur- 

 plish gray. One of them has an unusual 

 quantity of the latter color: 2 46.x 1.80: 

 2.40x1.80: 2.48x1.79. 



Set XXXIX. May 29, 1886. Cape May 

 Court House, N. .J. Three eggs, fresh. Two 

 of tlicui butty yellow, heavily blotched and 

 spotted with chestnut and purplish gray. 

 The other has a vinaceous-cinnamon ground 

 cohu' spofed and blotched with chestnut: 

 2.48x1.80; 2..")2xl.74; 2.28x1.7."). 



Set XL. May 7, 1882. Plum Island, Long 

 Island, Long Island .Sound. Nf.tt made on the 

 grouud. Three eggs. Buffy yellow, heavily 

 blotched and spotted with cliestnut and pur- 

 plish gray. One of tlietn has an unusual 

 amount of the latter color on it: 2.:'4xl.74; 

 2.32x1.74; 2.24 x 1.72. 



Set XLI. .May 29. 1886. Cape May Court 

 n.)use, N. .). Three eggs, heavily incubated. 



Buffy yellow, heavily blotched and spotted 

 with chestnut and purplish gray: 2.34x1.90; 

 2.43x1.92, (remarkably broad, both this egg 

 and the preceding one); 2.46 x 1.86. 



Set XL II. May 18, 1886. Hog Island, Va. 

 Nest in top of cedar. Three eggs, incubation 

 commenced. Two of them buffy yellow 

 heavily spotted and blotched with chestnut 

 and purplish gray; the third having vinaceous- 

 cinnamon ground color spotted and blotched 

 with chestnut and purplish gray. The latter 

 color is unusu.ally prominent on this egg, and 

 is not a reddish brown under the surface of the 

 shell, "authorities" to the contrary notwith- 

 standing: 2.27x1.74; 2.31x1.73; 2.44x1.80. 



Set XLIII. May 17, 1882. Shelter Island, 

 N. Y. Nest in sassafras tree, twenty-eight 

 feet up. Three eggs. Buffy yellow, very 

 heavily spotted and blotched with chestnut 

 and purplish gray: 2.:'6xl.81; 2 40x1.77; 

 2.:58xl.74. 



Set XLIV. .lune l.i, 1884. Vinalhaven, Me. 

 Nest in spruce, about thirty feet up. Three 

 eggs, incubation advanced. Buffy yellow, 

 heavily blotched and spotted with chestnut 

 and purplish gray. The markings are more 

 evenly distributed over the surface in this set 

 than is usual : 2.?,?, x 1.7.t; 2.29 x 1.79; 2.48 x 1.77. 



Set XLV. May 29, 1886. Cape May Court 

 House, N. J. Nest in dead pine. Three eggs, 

 fresh. Buffy yellow, two of them very heav- 

 ily spotted and blotched with chestnut; the 

 other heavily spotted and blotched with burnt 

 sienna and chestnut. The spots obscure the 

 smaller end. A most beautiful egg: 

 2.38 X 1.83; 2.2^ x 1.87; 2.3.=) x 1.80. 



Set XLVI. May 26, 188.">. Cape May 

 County, N. J. Nest in dead tree. Three 

 eggs, one fresh, the others nearly half incu- 

 bated. Buffy yellow, heavily blotched and 

 spotted with chestnut and traces of jiurplish 

 gray on one of the eggs: 2.4;i x 1.79; 2.31 xl.80; 

 2.48x1.78. 



Set XLVll. May 29, 1886. Cape May 

 Court House, N. .J. Nest in dead pine. 

 Three eggs, fresh. Deep buffy yellow, very 

 heavily marked with large blotches and spots 

 of chestnut, burnt umber, and purplish gray. 

 A very dark, handsome set of eggs: 2. .5.5 x 1.87; 

 2..52xl.86: 2.48x1.87. 



Set XLVIIL May 29. 1886. Cape May 

 Court House, X. J. Three eggs, fresh. Dark 

 buffy yellow, very heavily blotched and spotted 

 with burnt umber and chestnut. On one of 

 the eggs the markings are thickest at the 

 smaller end : 2.47 x 1.8.5; 2..50 x 1 84; 2.41 x 1.74. 



Set XLIX. May 16, 1883. Cobb's Island, 



