164 FRINGILLID A. 
Sporophila corvina (Sc/.). 
Spermophila corvina, Salv. § Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i, p. 355 
(1885); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 137 (1818); Nehrk. Kat. 
Eversammil .p. 106 (1899). 
Sporophila corvina, Richmond, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 492 (1893) ; 
Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. p. 571 (1901); Sharpe, 
Hand-l. y. p. 214 (1908). 
Four eggs of the Black Seed-eater resemble those of S. gutturalis 
so closely as to render any separate description unnecessary. They 
measure respectively: °7 by 52; -69 by :5; *68 by -5; °64 by °52. 
2. British Honduras (/. Blancaneaz). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
2. Chiriqui, Panama (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 
Genus MELOPYRRHA, Bonap. 
Melopyrrha nigra (Lenn.). 
Melopyrrha nigra, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 141 (1888); Nehrk. 
Kat. Eiersammi. p. 106 (1899) ; Ridgw. Birds North & Middle Amer. 
i. p. 562 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. vy. p. 215 (1908). 
An egg of the Cuban Seed-eater is of a rather long oval shape 
and devoid of gloss. The ground-colour is creamy-white, densely 
clouded with pale purplish-brown and purplish-grey and with a few 
small markings and fine hair-lines of chocolate-brown. It measures 
“71 by °52. 
1. Cuba (Nehkrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 
Genus EUETHIA, Reichend. 
Euethia olivacea (Linn.). 
(Plate IX. fig. 15.) 
Spermophila olivacea, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 249 (1847). 
Spermophila adoxa, Gosse, tom. cit. p. 253. 
Phonipara lepida, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 145 (1888) [part.}; 
Nehrk. Kat. Eiersammil. p. 106 (1899) [ part. }. 
Euethia olivacea olivacea, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. p. 580 
(1901). 
Euethia olivacea, Sharpe, Hand-l. p. 215 (1908). 
The eggs of the Yellow-faced Grassquit are of a regular oval 
shape and have a slight trace of gloss. They are white, speckled 
and blotched with pale rufous and underlying violet-grey. The 
markings are densest over the larger end of the egg, and in many 
specimens they coalesce at that part and form a cap. Examples 
