60 MNIOTILTID ®. 
Genus PROTONOTARIA, Baird. 
Protonotaria citrea (Bodd.). 
(Plate IIT. fig. 3.) 
Protonotaria citrea, Coues, Birds N-West, p. 47 (1874); Baird, Brewer 
& Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 184 (1874) ; Salv. §& Godm. Biol. 
Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 111 (1880); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 
p- 249 (1885); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 88 (1899); Sharpe, 
Hand-l. v. p. 97 (1906). 
The eggs of the Golden Swamp-Warbler are spheroidal in shape 
and moderately glossy. They are pinkish-white, more or less 
profusely mottled and blotched with reddish-brown, pale purple, 
and lilac. ‘They measure from 63 to -7 in length, and from ‘52 to 
56 in breadth. 
5. Mount Carmel, Ilinois (2. Ridg- Salvin-Godman Coll. 
way: Henshaw Coil.). 
1. oe Carmel (2. R.: Henshaw Salvin-Godman Coll. 
oll.). 
1. Burlington, Iowa, 2nd June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
[Pp 
Lo °J: 
Genus VERMIVORA, Swaiis. 
Vermivora pinus (Linn.). 
Helminthophaga pinus, Baird, Brewer § Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, }. 
p. 195 (1874) ; Salv. § Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 117 
(1880). 
Helminthophila pinus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 237 (1885); 
Nehrk. Kat. Eiersammi. p. 88 (1899). 
Vermivora pinus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 98 (1906). 
Two eggs of the Blue-winged Warbler are of a more or less 
broad oval shape, slightly pointed at one end, and somewhat glossy. 
The ground-colour is white, and the purplish-red and lilac markings 
are mostly confined to the larger end, forming, in one example, an 
uregular cap. They measure respectively -58 by -49 and -62 
by “46. 
2. Connecticut, May. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
eal: 
Vermivora celata (Say). 
(Plate III. fig. 2.) 
Helminthophaga celata, var. celata, Baird, Brewer § Ridgw. N. Amer. 
Birds, i. p. 202 (1874). Ret od ; 
Helminthophaga celata, Coues, Birds Color. Valley, p. 226 (1878) ; Salv. § 
Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 1. p. 116 (1880). 
