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colour pale greyish-green and possess a considerable amount of 
gloss. One specimen is a broad ellipse in shape, and round one end 
there is a wreath or zone of tangled lines, knots, and spots of deep 
blackish-brown. The remainder of the surface of the shell is 
unmarked. The other specimens have a similar but rather less 
extended zone round the larger end, with a few black spots scat- 
tered here and there over the remainder of the shell. The space 
occupied by the zone is underlaid with a faint purplish-grey wash 
in all three examples. They measure respectively: 1:18 by °78; 
1:03 by °8; 1°02 by ‘8. 
1. Sind Valley, Kashmir, 18th May Hume Coll. 
(C. B. Cock). 
1. Murree, N.W. Himalayas, 31st Hume Coll. 
MawiGC. i. 0.) 
1. Murree, 8th June (C. &. C.). Hume Coll. 
Genus ZAMELODIA, Cowes. 
Zamelodia ludoviciana (Lini.). 
Hedymeles ludovicianus, Baird, Brewer & Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. 
p- 70 (1874); Salv. § Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 336 
(1884); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 58 (1888) ; Nehrk. Kat. 
Eiersammi. p. 104 (1899). 
Goniaphea ludoviciana, Cowes, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 598 (1878). 
Zamelodia ludoviciana, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. p. 614 
(1901); Sharpe, Hand-l, v. p. 201 (1908). 
The eggs of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak are of an oval form and 
slightly glossy. They are light greenish-blue, profusely speckled 
and blotched over their entire surface with chestnut-brown. In 
eight eggs the measurements vary from *93 to 1-02 in length, and 
from ‘7 to *72 in breadth. 
1. North America (Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
1. Connecticut, U.S.A. (W. Wood: Salvin-Godman Coll. 
Smaths. Inst.). 
5. Hartford, Connecticut, 2nd June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
1. Groveport, Ohio (Smiths. Inst.: Crowley Bequest. 
Tristram Coll.). 
Zamelodia melanocephala (Swazzs.). 
(Plate IX. fig. 5.) 
Hedymeles melanocephalus, Baird, Brewer § Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, 
ii. p. 73 (1884) ; Salv. § Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 1. p. 338 
(1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B,. M. xii. p. 62 (1888); Nehrk. Kat. 
Eiersammi. p. 104 (1899). 
Zamelodia melanocephala, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. p. 617 
(1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 202 (1908). 
Eggs of the Black-headed Grosbeak are of an oval shape and 
