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Volatinia splendens, Salv. §& Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 857 
(1885) ; Sharpe, Handa-l. v. p. 217 (1908). 
Volatinia jacarini, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 152 (1888) [part.]. 
Volatinia Gaia splendens, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. p.526 
(1901). 
Eggs of the Blue-black Grassquit are of a blunt oval shape 
and slightly glossy. They are white, speckled and blotched with 
reddish-brown of two shades. The markings are dense at the 
larger end of the egg, where they form a zone or cap of greater or 
lesser extent. Eight examples measure from °6 to °7 in length, 
and from °5 to ‘54 in breadth. 
1. Mexico. Salvin-Godman Coll. 
2. Mexico. Gould Coll. 
1. ITrazu, Costa Rica, October. C. F. Underwood [C.]. 
2. Medellin, Antioquia, U.S. Salvin-Godman Coll. 
Colombia (7. A. Salmon). 
2. Medellin (7. A. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll, 
Genus PYRRHULOXIA, Bonap. 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata, Bonap. 
(Plate IX. fig. 14.) 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata, Baird, Brewer § Ridgw. N. Amer. Burds, ii. p. 95 
(1874) [part.]; Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, iv. p. 21 (1878) ; 
Salv. §& Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 348 (1884) ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 158 (1888) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eversammil., p. 106 
(1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 218 (1908). 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata sinuata, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. 1. 
p- 625 (1901). 
Three eggs of the Western Texas Cardinal-Gosbeak are of a 
broad rounded oval form and have a small amount of gloss. They 
are white, speckled and blotched all over, but more densely at the 
broad end than elsewhere, with umber-brown and underlying 
purplish-grey. They measure respectively: -89 hy °72; -94 by °76; 
and °95 by ‘76. 
1. Texas (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
2. Texas. Crowley Bequest. 
Pyrrhuloxia texana, Ridgw. 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata texana, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. 
p. 628 (1901). 
Pyrrhuloxia texana, Sharpe, Hand-l. y. p. 218 (1908). 
Three eggs of the Southern Cardinal-Grosbeak resemble those of 
P. sinuata, but are of a regular oval form. They measure re- 
spectively : *9 by ‘68; ‘92 by °68; and ‘96 by ‘69. 
5. San Antonio, Texas, 30th April. W. Radclifle Saunders, Esq. 
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