Dull pea-green. No. 3, regular!)- and sparsely covered with hair-, wood- 

 and clove-brown markings. No. 4 has the appearance of being smeared 

 with clove- and olive-brown about larger end ; remainder of egg unspott- 

 ed, with the exception of some minute dots of the same colors. The sur- 

 face of this egg is rough and ridgy. Ovate. 1.68x1.20. 1.62x1.21, 1.59 

 XI. 18, 1.71 XI. 16. (Described by F. L. Burns.) 



Set XXXII. —April 6, 1892. Weaverville, N. C. Collected by I. S. 

 Cairns. 5 eggs. From light malachite- to light glaucous-green. 3 eggs 

 thickly spotted with olive-green and clove-brown, but the ground color 

 showing prominently. No. 4. Shell markings of olive-grey, very sparsely 

 spotted with olive-green. No. 5. Mouse-grey shell markings, very num- 

 erous about smaller end ; with a sprinkling of clearly defined spots of 

 olive-green. Ovate. 1.60x1.14, 1.57x1.14, 1.60x1.12, 157x1.09, 1.52 

 X 1. 13. (Described by F. L. Burns.) 



Set XXXIII.— April 6, 1893. Weaverville, N. C. Collected by I. S 

 Cairns. 5 eggs. From a light glaucous-green to a pale pea-green. Rather 

 sparsely spotted and blotched with olive-green and olive-brown, some 

 mouse-grey markings appearing beneath. Ovate. 1.68x1.21. 1.69X 

 1. 19, 1.69x1.18, 1.65x1.19, 1.59x1.17. (Described by F. L. Burns.) 



Set XXXIV.— May 22, 1892. Meeker Co., Minn. Collected by Her- 

 man Hershey. 5 eggs. Malachite-green. Nos. i and 2, have shell mark- 

 ings of mouse-grey and cinereous, almost completely overlaid with 

 blotches and longitudinal streaks of olive-green, sage-green, and a few 

 minute markings of clove-brown noticeable at larger ends. Nor. 3, 4 

 and 5. Numerous shell markings of mouse-grey and cinereous, distinct 

 and not overlaid with color ; spotted and blotched with olive-green, olive- 

 brown, and clove-brown in larger spots than on first two eggs. Ovate. 

 1.65x1.17, 1.61X1.18, 1.55x1.17, 1.54x1.16, 1.60x1.20. (Described by 

 F. L. Burns.) 



Set XXXV.— April I, 1893. Cofteyville, Kan. (\jllected by George 

 N. Upham. 5 eggs. Nos. i, 2 and 3. Light green, streaked with olive- 

 green and olive-brown. No. 4. Light green, blotched at larger end, 

 especially with dirty brownish-green. No. 5. Light bluish-green, thickly 

 spotted at large end with olive-green and lilac ; the remainder of the egg 

 spotted with lilac shell markings. I never saw a Crow egg like it ; it 

 looks like a Magpie's egg. The last two eggs measure 1.77x1.24, 1.75x1.15. 

 Set XXXVI.— May 2, 1885. Weed Co., Colo. Collected by Frederick 

 M. Dille. 6 eggs Bright light-green, but marked in such various pat- 

 terns and degrees of intensity as to produce quite a variation in the set. 

 One of the eggs is marked throughout with large dark spots ; another 

 with smaller blotches of two shades of brown, gathered around larger 



