Sept. 1889.] 



AWD OOLOGIST. 



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Grosbeak {Canlhialix cardbiallx) which makes 

 it very pretty. An average one measures 1.70 

 inches in depth outside by 2. SO outside diam- 

 eter. The inside depth is 1.45, and the inside 

 diameter 1.55. The eggs belonging to tlie 

 above nests may be thus described: 



Set I. April 12, 1888, Wake County, North 

 Carolina. Nest in pine tree, sixty feet from 

 ground, and five feet from trunk. Bird seen 

 building nest. Four eggs, fresh. Grayish- 

 white, spotted and speckled with lilac-gray 

 and chestnut. The markings are principally 

 grouped in wreaths near the larger ends: ,75 

 X .55 : .72 X ..55 ; .74 x ..55 ; .70 x ,.54, The large.st 

 eggs in the series. 



Set II. April 14, 1888. Wake County, North 

 Carolina. Nest in pine tree, fifty feet from 

 ground, and eight feet from trunk. Bird on 

 nest. Four eggs, incubation one-tenth. Dark 

 grayish-white, speckled and spotted with lilac- 

 gray and chestnut. The heaviest markings 

 are nearly all conllned to wide wreaths near 

 the larger ends: .7;Jx.5;); .72x.52; .71x.51; 

 .71 X.51. 



Set III. April 14, 1888. Wake County, North 

 Carolina, Nest in pine tree fifty-five feet from 

 ground, and ten feet from trunk. Bird (ni 

 nest. Four eggs, incubation two-tenths. Dark 

 grayish-white, heavily spotted with lilac-gray 

 and chestnut. The markings are scattered all 

 over the eggs, but are hejiviest near the larger 

 ends: .72x,51; ,74x,52; ,73x.51; .74x..52. 



Set IV. April 16, 1888. Wake County, North 

 Carolina, Nest in pine tree fifty feet from 

 ground, and nine feet from trunk. Bird on 

 nest. Five eggs, incubation four-tenths. Gray- 

 ish-white, speckled and spotted with lilac-gray 

 and chestnut. The markings are thickest and 

 heaviest near the larger ends, where they form 

 indistinct wreaths: .7iJx ..56; .7.» x .57; .72x.57; 

 ,67x.54; .73 x .57. Five eggs is an unusual 

 number for this species. 



SetV. April 20, 1887. Iredell County, 

 North Carolina. Nest on limb of pine tree, 

 twenty feet from ground. Four eggs, incuba- 

 tion begun. Grayisli-white, spotted with lilac- 

 gray and burnt umber. The markings are 

 nearly all at the larger ends: .69 x ..53; .09 x .51 ; 

 .66 x.51; .67x,51, 



Set VI. April 16, 1888. Wake County, 

 North Carolina, Nest in pine tree sixty feet 

 from ground, and eight feet from trunk. Bird 

 on nest. Four eggs, incubation four-tenths. 

 Grayish-white, heavily spotted with chestnut 

 and lilac-gray. The spots are all over the 

 surface but are heaviest near the larger ends: 

 ,69x,53; ,70x..52; .69x,53; ,09x..54. 



Set VII, May 3, 1888, Wake County, North 

 Carolina. Nest in pine tree fifty feet from 

 ground, and two feet from trunk. Bird on 

 nest. Four eggs, incubation four-tenths. 

 Grayish-white, spotted with chestnut and a 

 few traces of lilac-gray. The markings on 

 this set, although somewhat heavier near the 

 larger ends, are more evenly distributed all 

 over their surface than on any others in the 

 series: .70x..54; .71x..54; .69x..54; .70x..53, 



Set VIII, April 16, 1888, Iredell County, 

 North Carolina. Nest in pine tree thirty-five 

 feet from ground. Four eggs, incubation 

 begun. Bird on nest. Grayish-white, speckled 

 and spotted with chestnut and lilac-gray. 

 Nearly all the markings on this set are grouped 

 together in wreaths, and on three of the eggs 

 these wreaths are near the larger ends, while 

 on the fourth it is near the smaller end: .68 

 X.52; .60X.54; .08x..53; .07x..55, 



Set IX, May 4, 1888, Wake County, North 

 Carolina. Nest in pine tree sixty feet from 

 ground, and six feet from trunk. Four eggs, 

 incubatii n five-tenths. Deep grayish-white, 

 speckled a id spotted with lilac-gray and chest- 

 nut. There are also a few specks of burnt 

 umber: .74x.53; ,73x..53; .74 x.52; .72x,51, 



Set X. April 18, 1888, Wake County, North 

 Carolina, Nest in pine tree sixty-five feet from 

 ground, and three feet from trunk. Bird on 

 nest. Four eggs, incubation six-tenths. 

 Grayish-white, speckled and spotted with 

 lilac-gray and chestnut. The markings of the 

 latter color are large, and oblong in shape, 

 being different in this respect from any others in 

 theseries: .72X..53; .73x..53; .74x,.53; ,70x,52. 



Set XI, April 9, 1888, Wake County, North 

 Carolina. Nest in pine tree twenty feet from 

 ground, and fifteen feet from trunk. Bird on 

 nest. Four eggs, fresh. Pinkish - white, 

 speckled and spotted with brick red and a few 

 markings of lilac-gray. This set is perfectly 

 authenticated, as the bird was on the nest, 

 which is exactly similar to all of the others 

 belonging to sets of eggs described in this 

 article. In shape and size the eggs are similar 

 to the other sets, but in all other respects they 

 are unlike any of them, and at a first glance 

 anyone would say that they could not have 

 been laid by a Pine Warbler, so different are 

 they In their general appearance. The ground 

 color of all the others is of a decided grayish 

 or bluish tint, while in this set it is pinkish- 

 white, and the markings are so much more 

 brilliant that the whole effect of the eggs is 

 decidedly reddish, I have seen over fifty sets 

 of eggs of this bird, but none of them were at 



