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slightly glossy. The ground-colour is pale greenish-white, finely 
spotted all over with reddish-brown and with underlying small 
blotches and spots of violet-grey, the markings being most numerous 
round the Jarger end. They measure from *71 to ‘72 in length, and 
from *53 to *55 in breadth. 
4, San Diego, California, 12th April W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(O. W. Knight). [P.]. 
Amphispiza nevadensis, Ridyw. 
(Plate XII. fig. 20.) 
Poospiza belli, var. nevadensis, Baird, Brewer § Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, 
j. p. 594 (1874). 
Amphispiza nevadensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 680 (1888) ; ad. 
Hand-l. v. p. 801 (1909). 
Amphispiza belli nevadensis, Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler’s Surv. 1879, 
p: 296; Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. p. 270 (1901). 
Four eggs of the Sage-Sparrow are of a rather lengthened oval 
form and moderately glossy. They are very pale green, speckled 
and blotched with pale reddish-brown and purplish-grey. The 
markings are most frequent at the broad end, where they are more 
or less confluent and form a wide zone. In addition, the eggs have 
a few blotches and scrawls of very dark reddish-brown, almost 
black, scattered over their surface. They measure respectively : 
8 by °57 ; -75 by -573; -82 by -57 ; °79 by °57. 
4. Reno, Nevada, 25th May (H.W. — Salvin-Godman Coll 
Henshaw). 
Genus POOSPIZA, Cab. 
Poospiza melanoleuca (D’Orb. & Lafr.). 
(Plate XII. fig. 11.) 
Poospiza melanoleuca, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 688 (1888) ; 
Nehrk. Kat. Eversammi. p. 115 (1899); Sharpe, Hand-l. vy. p. 302 
(1909). 
Two eggs of the White-and-Grey Warbling-Finch are of a rather 
pointed oval shape and somewhat glossy. They are white, sparingly 
spotted, chiefly round the larger end, where the markings form 
an irregular zone, with brownish-black and lilac-grey. They 
measure respectively “75 by °53 and °73 by °55. 
2, Argentina. Crowley Bequest. 
