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Genus EMBERNAGRA, Less. 
Embernagra platensis ((mel.). 
Embernagra platensis, Sel. § Huds. Argent. Orn. i. p. 62 (1888) ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds B. M., xii. p. 758 (1888); Dalgleish, Proc. R. Phys. Soc. 
Edinb. x. p. 77 (1888-90) ; Holland, Ibis, 1892, p. 197 ; 1895, p. 215 ; 
Nehrk. Kat. Eversamml. p. 118 (1899); Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, 
iv. p. 215 (1900); Sharpe, Hund-l. v. p. 323 (1909). 
Eggs of the Red-billed Ground-Finch are of a regular oval form 
and very glossy. They are white or pinkish-white, marked, but 
almost entirely at the broad end, in various ways. Some eggs are 
spotted with rich chocolate-brown and underlying lavender ; others 
are smeared with pale brownish-pink and lilac, and blotched with 
very rich chestnut-brown; others again are very beautifully marked 
with an intricate tracery of lines, intermingled with spots and 
streaks, of extremely rich purplish- or chocolate-brown. With the 
exception of the broad end, the surface of the egg is unmarked, or 
very sparingly speckled with rufous. Eggs measure from ‘9 to 1-02 
in length, and from *68 to ‘75 in breadth. 
2. Argentina, Oct. A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.]. 
3. Argentina, Nov. A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.]. 
2. Argentina, Nov. A. H. Holland, Esq. | C. |. 
3. Argentina, Nov. A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.]. 
4, Argentina, Nov. A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.]. 
3. Argentina, Nov. A. H. Holland, Esq. |C. |. 
Genus EMBERIZOIDES, Temi. 
Emberizoides macrurus ((iel.). 
Emberizoides macrurus, Sci. § Salv. P. Z. 8.1879, p. 507; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds B. M, xii. p. 768 (1888) ; id. Hand-l. vy. p. 324 (1909). 
The eggs of the Long-tailed Finch are of a pointed oval shape, 
rather glossy, and white, very sparingly and delicately speckled 
with black. A few of the markings are larger than the others, 
but none are larger than the head of an ordinary pin. In two 
specimens the specks are distributed over the entire shell; in 
another they are chiefly collected about the larger end, where there 
are also a few hair-lines. Three examples measure respectively : 
"92 by °65; -9 by 68; -91 by °66. 
2. Medellin, Antioquia, U.S. Co- Salvin-Godman Coll. 
lombia (7. K. Salmon). 
1. Medellin (7. K. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
