2oG vrREOMb-E. — .miKr.in.T.. 



The eggs of Bell's Greenlot in the Collection arc very faintly 

 speckled with rufous at, the broad end only. They measure re- 

 spectively : -7 by '5 ; - GS by *5. 



2. Texas. Crowley Bequest. 



Vireo modestus. Scl. 



(Plate XI. fig. 12.) 



Vireo noveboracensis (nee Gm.), Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 192 (IS 17). 

 Vireo modestus, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 303 (1883); Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. iv. p. 252 (1903). 



The eggs of the Plain Greenlet differ from those of the other 

 species of Greenlets in being very boldly marked, the spots and 

 blotches forming a strongly-defined band round or about the broad 

 end. Two examples measure respectively : "78 by '55 ; '79 by '57. 



2. Kingston, Jamaica, 15th May Crowley Bequest. 



(C.B. Taylor). 



Family AMPELID2E. 



Genus AMPELIS, Linn. 



Ampelis garrulus, Linn. 



Bombyeilla garrula, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vb'a. tab. 52. fig. 20 ( 1855 63) ; 



WoUey, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 5-5, Arcs, pi. exxii. ; von Nordm. J. f. O. 



L858, p. 307, 1859, taf. i. figs, a, />: Wheelwright, A Spring and 



Summer in Lapland, p. 279 { 1S71 ). 

 Ampelis garrulus, Xnr/on, Ibis, 1861, p. 92, pi. iv. ; Dresser, Birds Eur. 



iii. p. 429 (1873); Seebohm, Jin'/. Birds, ii. p. 3, pi. 11 (1884); 



Sharpe, Cat. Hints B. M. x. p. 212 (1885); Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 233, pi. 54. fig. L9 (1896); WoUey $ Newton, Ootheca 



Wolleyana, pt. ii. p. 212, pi. x. (U)02) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 259 



(1903). 



Eggs of the Waxwing arc of a regular oval shape, but some 

 specimens have the smaller end compressed and pointed. They 

 have a moderate amount of gloss. They are greyish blue, sometimes 

 with an olive tinge, very distinctly spotted all over with black or 

 deep blackish brown and underlying lavender-grey. Some of tho 

 darker spots have their edges blurred and running into the sur- 

 rounding ground-colour. The markings, in all the examples in the 

 Collection, arc remarkably evenly spread over the whole shell and 

 there is never an} - tendency for them to form a cap at the broad 

 end of the egg. Specimens measure from *86 to 1/02 in length, 

 and. from *65 to - 7 in breadth. 



1. Lapland (J. WoUey). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Lapland (J. W.). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



2. Lapland, 12th June (J. U'.). Seebohm Coll. 



