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larger end where the markings form a dense cap. ‘They measure 
respectively *82 by °54 and ‘82 by ‘d6. 
2. Grenada (J. G. Wells). Crowley Bequest. 
Pyrrhulagra barbadensis, Cory. 
Loxigilla barbadensis, Cory, Auk, iii. p. 382 (1886) ; Ferlden, Ibis, 1889, 
p- 485. 
Loxigilla noctis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M, xii. p. 84 (1888) [part.]. 
Pyrrhulagra barbadensis, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. p. 561 
(1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 206 (1908). 
Six eggs of the Barbados Grosbeak are of a rather narrow oval 
shape and devoid of gloss. They are white, speckled and blotched 
with pale reddish-brown and underlying violet-grey. The markings 
generally form a broad zone round the larger end of the egg. They 
measure from ‘77 to *8 in length, and from *55 to *6 in breadth. 
3. Barbados, 15th May. Col. H. W. Feilden [P.}. 
3. Barbados, 18th May. Col. H. W. Feilden [P.}. 
Genus LOXIIPASSER, Bryant. 
Loxiipasser anoxanthus (Gisse). 
Spermophila anoxantha, Grosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 247 (1847). 
Loxigilla anoxantha, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 85 (1888); Nehrk. 
Kat. Eversamml. p. 105 (1899). 
Loxipasser anoxanthus, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. p. 546 
1901). 
eee anoxanthus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 207 (1908). 
Eggs of the Yellow-shouldered Grass-quit are of an oval shape 
and without gloss. ‘They are white, speckled and blotched, more 
thickly on the broader half of the egg than elsewhere, with pale 
reddish-brown and underlying grey. ‘They measure from ‘7 to ‘77 
in length, and from *51 to *57 in breadth. 
5. Jamaica, Salvin-Godman Coll. 
1. Jamaica (W. Osburn: Trostram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
Genus SPOROPHILA, Cab. 
Sporophila grisea (Gmel.). 
(Plate IX. fig. 9.) 
Spermophila grisea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 96 (1888). 
Sporophila grisea, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 208 (1908). 
Four eggs of the Venezuelan Seed-eater are of an almost perfect 
oval shape and slightly glossy. In three the ground-colour is 
white, blotched and spotted all over with reddish- or purplish-brown 
and lilac-grey and with a few scattered spots of dark brown. In 
