a TANAGRID®H. 
Brewer records ezzs with the ground-colour of “a light shade of 
emcerald-green, marked with various shades of brown, more or less 
tinged with lilac, purple and slate.” 
3. Near Kansas City, Missouri, 18th W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
June. P 
Pyranga rubra (Liin.). 
(Plate XIII. fig. 12.) 
Pyranga rubra, Baird, Brewer §& Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 485 
(1874); Salvo. § Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves,i. p. 287 (1888) ; 
Sel. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 188 (1835); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 
p. 96 (1899), p. 827 (1910); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 386 (1909). 
Tiranga erythromelas, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer, i. p. 88 
(1902). 
The eggs of the Scarlet Tanager are of a broad oval shape and 
exhibit a small amount of gloss. They are pale greenish-blue, 
thickly spotted and blotched with pale reddish-brown and _ lilac- 
grey. ‘lhe markings are more numerous as well as larger at the 
broad end, and in one example form a Jarge ill-defined cap. 
They measure from °85 to -96 in length, and from *68 to ‘72 in 
breadth. 
2, North America (Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godmam Coll. 
di. 
Pennsylvania (C. J. Pennock). Princeton University, N.J. 
1. New Jersey (D. G. Elliot: Tris- Crowley Bequest. 
tram Covill.). 
3. Lastford, Connecticut, 6th June Crowley Bequest. 
(Rev. J. Jones). 
4, Hyde Park, Illinois, 2nd June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
Pyranga bidentata, Swaiis. 
Pyranga bidentata, Salv. § Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 296 
(18838) ; Sel. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 190 (1886) [part.|; Sharpe, 
Hand-l. vy. p. 386 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersammi. p. 327 (1910). 
Piranga bidentata bidentata, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. ii. 
p- 95 (1902). 
An egg of Swainson’s Tanager is of a regular oval shape and 
slightly glossy. The ground-colour is pale greenish-blue sparingly 
marked, almost entirely at the larger end, with small spots of 
purplish-black and lilac-grey. It measures °97 by ‘72. 
1. Escasu, Costa Rica, 19th May. Mr. C. F. Underwood [C.]. 
