396 ICTERID ®. 
Euphagus cyanocephalus ( !Vag/.). 
Scolecophagus cyanocephalus, Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, p. 82; Baird, 
Brewer §& Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 206 (1874); Henshaw, Rep. 
Orn. Wheeler's Surv. 1874, p. 82; Coues, Birds N.-West, p. 199 
(1874) ; Sel. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p.890 (1886); Bendire, Life-Hist. 
N. Amer, Birds, ii. p. 498, pl. vii, figs. 17-20 (1895); Nehrk. Kat. 
Lersamm. p. 103 (1899) ; Ridyw. Birds North 8 Middle Amer. ii. 
p- 248 (1902). 
Luphagus eyanocephalus, Sharpe, Hand-l. y.p. 506 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. 
Tersammi. p. 846 (1910), 
The eggs of Brewer’s Grackle are of a broad oval form and 
glossy. They are pale greenish-blue or greenish-grey, marbled, 
biotched and clouded with several shades of brown and rufous, 
and also marked with spots, small blotches and short lines of deep 
chocolate or purplish-brown. The ground-colour is smeared in 
places with lilac or lavender. In one set of four eggs from 
California the ground in two is pale blue, one being unmarked, 
while the other one has only a few short black hair-lines and small 
blotches of purplish-black ; the remaining two eggs are pale greyish- 
blue, somewhat smeared with brownish and with a few blotches 
or twisted lines as in eggs of Quiscalus quiscalus (see p. 397). 
Examples measure from +95 to 1:05 in length, and from ‘67 to ‘8 
in breadth. 
5. North America (Z%eld Coll.). W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
Po: 
1. Carlton, N. America, 25th May Salvin-Godman Coll. 
(T. W. Blakiston). 
4, Fort Benton, N. America (Smiths. Salvin-Godman Coll. 
Inst.). 
2. Head-waters of the Missouri, Crowley Bequest. 
27th June (W. F. Raynolds: 
Tristram Coll.). 
5. Fort Garland, Colorado (H. WW. Salvin-Godman Coll. 
Henshaw). 
2. Nevada, 21st May (2. W. H.) Salvin-Godman Coll. 
4. Woodland, Califorma, 3lst May W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(A. M. Ingersoll). [EPs 
5. San Francisco, California, lst June Crowley Bequest. 
(A. J. Burrows). 
5. Santa Cruz, California, 5th Nov. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(A. M. L) Pp.) 
5. San Diego, California, 15th May W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
(1. M. Conville). (Pes 
2. Mexico. Crowley Bequest. 
Genus DIVES, Cassin. 
Dives dives (Licht.). 
(Plate XVIII. figs. 3 & 4.) 
Lampropsar dives, Boucard, P. Z, S. 18838, p. 446. 
Dives sumichrasti, Sel. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p.392 (1886) ; Salv. § God. 
Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 481 (1887); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersammi. 
p. 1038 (1899). 

