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slightly glossy. The ground-colour is white, minutely spotted 
over the entire surface with brick-red or maroon and lilac-grey, 
the markings being rather more numerous towards the larger end 
and sometimes forming an irregular zone or cap. They measure 
from *Y¥ to 1:1 in length, and from 69 to °74 in breadth. 
1. California (7. M. Brewer: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
3. Waterville, California, 10th May. W. ae Saunders, Esq. 
[esi 
Pipilo oregonus, Bell. 
Pipilo maculatus, var. oregonus, Baird, Brewer § Ridgw. N. Amer. 
Birds, ii. p. 116 (1874). 
Pipilo oregonus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 749 (1888); Nehrk. 
Kat. Eversammil. p. 118 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 818 (1909). 
Pipilo maculatus, var. oregunus, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. i. 
p- 420 (1901). 
An egg of the Oregon Towhee is similar to that of P. megalonyx. 
It measures ‘92 by °7. 
1. Portland, Oregon, 2nd June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(eal 
Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linn.). 
Fringilla erythropthalma, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 888, tab. xxxiv. 
fig. 1, a, b (1845-54). 
Pipilo erythrophthalmus, Baird, Brewer & Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. 
p. 109 (1874) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 744 (1888); Nekrk- 
Kat. Eversammi. p. 118 (1899) : Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 819 (1909). 
Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus, Ridgw. Birds North & 
Middle Amer. i. p. 423 (1901). 
Eggs of the Towhee or Chewink are of a blunt oval form with the 
smaller end much rounded, and they are moderately glossy. The 
ground-colour is white, densely speckled and mottled, especially at 
the broad end, where a cap is often formed, with brick-red or maroon 
and lavender-grey. hey measure from ‘8 to 1-0 in length, and 
from *65 to °73 in breadth. 
4. North America. Gould Coll. 
4. North America. Gould Coll. 
4. North America. Gould Coll. 
2. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
10. North America (Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
4. New York (D. G. £lliot : Tris- Crowley Bequest. 
tram Coll.). 
1. Massachusetts (7. M. Brewer: Crowley Bequest. 
Tristram Coll.). 
2. Princeton, New Jersey (W. E£. Princeton University, N.J. 
D. Scott). Bom 
