378 ICTERID®. 
The markings are generally rather more dense at the broad end. 
Three specimens measure respectively: ‘99 by -76; -96 by °73; 
"V5 by *73. 
1. Aj6, Buenos Ayres, 3rd_ Feb. 
(with 4 eges of M. rufo-avil- 
laris, see p. 377). 
2. Aj6, 17th Feb. (with 3 eges of 
M.rufo-avillaris). 
Miss I. G, Runnacles [C.]. 
Miss I. G. Runnacles [C. ]. 
Genus AGELAUS, Vieiill. 
Ageleus pheniceus (Zinn.). 
Icterus phoeniceus, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxxvii. fig. 2, a, b 
(1845-54), 
Agelaius phoeniceus, Baedrker, Ever Eur. Vog. tab. 76. tig. 14 (1855- 
63); Bard, Brewer & Ridgw. N. Amer, Birds, ii. p. 159 (1874) ; 
Bendire, Life-Hist. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 449, pl. vi. figs. 18, 14, 
15 (1895). 
Ageleus pheeniceus, Coves, Birds N.-West, p. 186 (1874); Sel. Cat. 
Birds B, M. xi. p. 840 (1886 ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 231, 
pl. 54. fig. 18 (1896); Nehrk. Kat. Eversamml. p. 100 (1899), 
p. 842 (1910); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 491 (1909). 
Agelaius phoeniceus pheeniceus, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. ii. 
p. 330 (1902). 
The eggs of the Red-winged Blackbird, or Red-shouldered 
Starling, are of an oval shape, and moderately glossy, They are 
pale bluish-green, often clouded at the ends with greyish-pink 
or pale brown and sparingly marked, chiefly at the broad end, with 
spots, streaks, and lines resembling those on the eggs of some 
of the Buntings. These markings are black, brown, deep purplish- 
red, and pinkish-brown, many of them being blurred at the 
margins and running into the surrounding ground-colour. 
Numerous eggs measure from -9 to 1-1 in length, and from -67 

to ‘75 in breadth. 
3. North America. 
15. North America. 
12. North America (Henshaw Coll.). 
9, North America (Smeths. Inst.). 
5. North America (7. M. Brewer: 
Tristram Coll.). 
3. North America. 
2. North America (D. G. Elliot: 
vestram Coll.). 
3. Fort Resolution, Gt. Slave Lake, 
June (J. Lockhart: Smiths. 
Inst.). 
2. Canada. 
6. Canada. 
4, Vermillion, South Dakota, 30th 
May. 
4. Readville, Massachusetts, 20th 
May. 
Old Collection. 
Purchased. 
Salvin-Godman Coll, 
Salvin-Godman Coll. 
Crowley Bequest. 
Crowley Bequest. 
Crowley Bequest. 
Salvin-Godman Coll, 
Salvin-Godman Coll. 
Crowley Bequest. 
W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
Gea 
Be on Saunders, Esq. 
IRAE 
