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oval shape and are slightly glossy. Some are greenish-white, 
mottled and smeared with pale brown and marked with a few spots 
of a darker brown. Others are greyish-white, or greenish-white, 
smeared and blotched with dull brick-red and pale underlying 
lavender-grey or very finely marked all over with the same colour. 
They measure from °7 to °83 in length, and from ‘55 to ‘6 in 
breadth. 
3. North America (H. Buckley: Crowley Bequest. 
Tristram Coll.). 
1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
2. North America (Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
3. Princeton, New Jersey, 24th May Princeton University, N.J. 
(W. E. D. Scott). { E.]. 
4, Princeton, 28th May (W. £. Princeton University, N.J. 
D. S.). [E.}. 
2. Princeton, 6th June (W. £. D.S.). Princeton University, N.J. 
E. |. 
4, Pennsylvania (7. M. Brewer). Hoa Dreasée Esq. [E. ]. 
4, Taunton, Massachusetts, 2nd June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq, 
Pal: 
3. Taunton, 2nd June. we iRadoliff Saunders, Esq. 
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Genus PASSERELLA, Swazns. 
Passerella iliaca (Merrem). 
Fringilla iliaca, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 594, tab. xxxiv. fig. 3, a-e 
(1845-54). 
Passerella iliaca, Ross, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1862, p. 282; td. Canad. Nat. 
vil. p. 147 (1862); Baird, Brewer §& Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. 
p. 50 (1874); Cowes, Birds N.-West, p. 160 (1874); Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds B. M. xii. p. 716 (1888); Mackarlane, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
xiv. p. 443 (1891); Nehrk, Kat. Kiersammil. p. 117 (1899); Sharpe, 
Hand-l. vy. p. 314 (1909). 
Passerella iliaca iliaca, Rrdgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. p. 386 
(1901). 
The eggs of the Fox-coloured Sparrow vary from a blunt oval 
to a perfectly elliptical shape and are moderately glossy. They 
are very pale green, densely mottled, blotched and smeared with 
bright brick-red. Here and there, traces of underlying grey may 
be detected. The surface-markings are confluent over the broad 
end and frequently over the whole surface of the egg. Specimens 
measure from ‘9 to ‘96 in length, and from °62 to ‘7 in breadth. 
2. 100 miles N. of the Porcupine R., Crowley Bequest. 
Alaska (J. Lockhart: Tris- 
tram Coll.). 
2. Peel River, British N. America Salvin-Godman Coll. 
(J. L.: Smiths. Inst.). 
5. Fort Simpson, British N America. — .B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.]. 
2. Fort Simpson. B. R. Ross, Esq. | P. |. 
8. Fort Simpson. B. R, Ross, Esq. | P. |. 
