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end ; while two of the eggs are so streaked and smeared with brown as 

 to almost hide the ground color. 1.63x1.16, 1.65x1.15, 1.68x1.15, 1.66 

 X 1. 17, 1.67 X 1. 16, 1.60 X 1. 17. 



Set XXXVII.— April 30, 1891. Bradford Hills, Chester Co., Penn. 

 Collected by F. L. Burns. 4 eggs, but only 2 saved. Ground color pea- 

 green. No. I. Thickly spotted and blotched with olive-green and olive- 

 brown. No 2. Several large shell markings of drab- and olive-grey, 

 overlaid with spots and blotches of olive-green, olive-brown, and a few 

 scrawls of clove-brown at small end. Ovate to elongate ovate. i.8rx 

 1. 21, 1.68 X I 21. 



Set XXXVIII.— April 19, 1886. Berwyn, Chester Co., Penn. Col- 

 lected by F. L. Burns. 4 eggs. 2 eggs light bice-green, and two light 

 chromium-green, thickly speckled and spotted with olive-green, some 

 olive-brown, and a few shell markings of olive-grey. Elongate ovate. 

 1. 80x1. 17, 1.79x1.20, 1.77x1.17, 1.77x1.17. 



Set XXXIX. — April 14, 1893. Sonoma Co., Cal. Collected by Henry 

 W. Carriger. 5 eggs. 3 eggs light bice-green, very thickly spotted 

 and blotched with olive-green and olive-brown. No. 4. Very light 

 malachite-green, spotted and blotched with olive-green and olive- 

 brown. No. 5. Light nile-blue, with faint shell markings of mouse- 

 and drab-grey, sparsely overlaid with spots of olive-green and olive- 

 brown. Ovate. 1.60x1.17,1.61x1.17,1.56x1.16,1.54x1.15, 1.57x1.14. 



Set XL —May 5, 1893. Westbrook, Me. Collected by Arthur H. 

 Norton. i egg. Pea-green, heavily blotched with olive, irregular in 

 distribution, but chiefly at larger jend ; also pencilings and spots of black 

 at large end. 1.78x1.22 



Set XLI. — April 10, 1886. Valley Forge, Montgomery Co., Penn. 

 Collected by F. L. Burns. 5 eggs. No. i. Chromium-green, a few 

 shell markings of olive- and mouse-grey, overlaid with olive-green, oliv-e- 

 and clove-brown. No. 2. Light bice-green, marked heavier than the 

 above with the same colors. No. 3. Pea-green, same as the above, but 

 has a more streaky appearance. Nos. 4 and 5. Lightest possible tint of 

 glaucous-green, with colors of No. i in streaks and dashes, pattern 

 rather indistinct. Elongate ovate, 175x1. 11, 1.74x1.11, 1.64x1.11, 

 1.74 X 1. 13, i.68x 1.06. 



Set XLII. — April 20, 1889. Berwyn, Chester Co., Penn. Collected by 

 F. L. Burns. 5 eggs. A very pretty .set. 2 eggs light chromium-green, 

 with shell markings of mouse-, drab- and olive-grey, confluent at larger 

 end in one and at smaller end in the other ; overlaid with olive-green and 

 -olive-brown. Where the grey clusters thickest, it is overlaid with small 

 spots and scrawls of clove-brown. Nos. 3 and 4. Ligkt glacous-green. 



