MOLOTHRUS. 379 
The eggs of the Argentine Cow-bird are of an extremely short, 
broad oval form, many specimens being spheroidal, and they possess 
a considerable amount of gloss. They are very variable in colour. 
Many are plain white ; others are white marked with specks of grey 
or faint lavender; others are white or cream-colour, densely 
speckled with chestnut and lavender; and others again are not 
only speckled as in these last, but are also heayily blotched, 
especially at the broad end, with deep chestnut-red and purplish- 
grey. They measure from ‘8 to 1 in length, and from ‘7 to -8 in 
breadth. 
2, Brazil(Nehrkorn Coll.: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
1. Brazil (with 2 eges of Brachy- Crowley Bequest. 
spiza pileata, see p. 276). 
1. Brazil (with 3 eges of B. pileata). Crowley Bequest. 
1. Brazil (with 3 eggs of B. pileata). Crowley Bequest. 
1. Brazil(with 4eges of B. pileata). Crowley Bequest. 
1. Brazil (with 3 eggs of B. pileata). W. Radeclitie Saunders, Esq. 
ee 
19. Argentine Republic, Sept—Dec. A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.]. 
6. Argentine Republic. Crowley Bequest. 
5. Argentine Republic ( W.H. Hud- P. li. Sclater, Esq. [ P.]. 
son). 
8. Buenos Ayres (W. H. ZZ.) (with P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 
1 egg ot Milvulus tyrannus). 
3. Buenos Ayres (with egg of |W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 
Brachyspiza pileata). 
2. Buenos Ayres (with egg of W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 
Milculus tyrannus). 
2. Buenos Ayres (with ege of M. W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 
tyrannus). 
3. Buenos Ayres (with 3 eggs of | W.H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 
Pseudoleistes virescens, see p. 383). 
1. Buenos Ayres (with 4 eggs of W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 
P. virescens). 
1. Buenos Ayres (with 2 eggs of W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 
Anthus correndera, see p. 108). 
2. Buenos Ayres (with 5 eggs of W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 
Serphophaga nigricans). 
& 
3. Buenos Ayres. W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.}. 
17. Buenos Ayres (W. H. H.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
1. Aj6, Buenos Ayres, 15th Noy. Ernest Gibson, Esq. | P.]. 
(C. H. B. Grant) (with 3 eggs 
of Brachyspiza pileata), 
5. Ajo, 9th Dec. (C. H. B. G.) (in Ernest Gibson, Esq. [ P.]. 
nest of B. pileata). 
2. Aj6,18th Jan.(C. H. B. G.) (with Ernest Gibson, Esq. [ P.]. 
2 egos of B. pileuta). 
1. Aj6,29th Dec.(C. H. B. G.) (with Ernest Gibson, Esq. [P.]. 
8 eges of M. rufo-axillaris in 
nest of M. badius, built inside 
an old nest of Anwmbius acuti- 
caudus, see p. 377). 
