SPOROPHILA. 163 
Eggs of the Screaming Seed-eater are of a rather long oval 
form and almost deyoid of gloss. The ground-colour is white or 
bluish-white, and the markings in most of the specimens are similar 
to those of S. moreleti described above. A set of five eggs from the 
Crowley Collection differs considerably, being heavily marked with 
chocolate-brown blotches and markings, chiefly distributed around 
the larger end. The measurements vary from ‘62 to °71 in length, 
and from -47 to °5 in breadth. 
5. Brazil (Nehrkorn Coll.; Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
4. [Brazil.] W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
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1. Argentina. Crowley Bequest. 
1. Buenes Ayres. Crowley Bequest. 
Sporophila gutturalis (Zzcht.). 
(Plate IX. fig. 13.) 
Spermophila gutturalis, Layard, Ibis, 1873, p. 880; Sel. § Sale. P. Z. S. 
1879, p. 507; Salv. § Godm. Brol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 354 
(1885); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 128 (1888); Nehrk. 
Kat. Eversamml. p. i105 (1899) ; Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv. 
p- 213 (1900). 
Sporophila gutturalis, Ridge. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. p. 569 
(1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. y. p. 212 (1908). 
Eggs of the Yellow-bellied Seed-eater are of an elongate oval 
shape and devoid of gloss. Six are pale greenish-white, sparingly 
marked with small blotches and some lines of chocolate-brown and 
densely streaked, smeared and clouded with purplish-brown and 
purplish-grey. In one specimen the markings are mostly concen- 
trated round the larger end where they form a dense reddish-umber- 
brown cap. They measure from °65 to -71 in length, and from 
-48 to ‘51 in breadth. 
2. Medellin, Antioquia, U.S. Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll 
(T. K. Salmon). ; 
5. Medellin (Zristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 
Sporophila lineola (Zinz.). 
Spermophita lineola, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 181 {1888}; Nehrh. 
Kat. Eiersammil. p. 106 (1899). 
Sporophila lineola, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 218 (1908). 
An egg of the Guiana Seed-eater is similar to the first type of 
S. gutturalis described above. it measures -7 by -49. 
1. Cayenne (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequess, 
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