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6. Empidonaxvirescens. Green-crested Flycatcher. 

 — June 1, 1897. Collected by J. Warren Jacobs, Greene Co., Pa. 

 Three slightly incubated eggs, ground color pure white, speckled, 

 sparingly on the larger ends, with burnt sienna. Elliptical 

 ovate; .72x.53, .71x.53 and .71x.53 inch. 



7. Crovus americanus. American Crow. — May 12, 1892. 

 Collected by J. Warren Jacobs, Greene Co., Pa. Originally 

 three slightly incubated eggs; — one broken in blowing; — pale 

 bluish-green almost devoid of markings, which are of black and 

 faint chromium green on smaller end of one and on both ends 

 of the other. Ovate, 1.62x1.14 and 1.52x1 13 inches. 



8. Crovus americanus. American Crow. (Plate I, No. 

 8).— April 10, 1892. Collected by J. Warren Jacobs,ntar Waynes- 

 burg, Pa. Four slightly incubated eggs; nile blue, two 

 very heavily spotted and streaked with broccoli brown and 

 grayish almost concealing the ground color; third is moderately 

 marked (for this bpecies) with minute specks of broccoli brown 

 over which is diffused bold blotches of same and dark umber, 

 becoming confluent in a band running sj)i rally around the shell 

 and making one and a half circuits from the smaller to the great- 

 er end; fourth is nearly immaculate, having only a few faint yel- 

 lowish streaks, hardly noticeable. Ovate; 1.66x1.14, 1.60x1.1.14, 

 1.60x1.14 and 1.64x1.12 inches. Many small granulations on small 

 end of unmarked specimen. 



9. Agelaius phceniceus. Red-winged Blackbird.— 

 June 14, 1894. Collected by R. W. Johnson, Rice Lake, (near 

 Port Hope,) Ont., Can. One fresh egg, pale bluish-green, im- 

 maculate. Elliptical ovate; 1.05X.7 ) inch. 



10. Sturnella magna. Meadowlark.— June 10, 1896. 

 Collected by R. T. Anderson, Aylmer, Ont., Can. Five fresh 

 ejrgs; white, graduating in markings from one typically blotch- 

 ed and dotted specimen through two types of sparingly clotted 

 ar.d one faintly speckled to almost immaculate in the fifth speci- 

 men. The color pigment throughout is a soft or subdued reddish 

 brown and helitrope purple, becoming almost indistinguishable 

 on the last egg. Elliptical ovate; l.llx.82. 1.14x.87, 1.05x.86 1.06 

 x,83 and 1.07x.82 inches. Thin frail shells. 



11. Quiscalus quiscula seneus. Bronzed Grackle. — 

 May 28, 1886. Collected by William L. Kells, Listowell, Ont., 

 Can. Four fresh eggs, quite unique in color; three have a raw 

 umber ground, almost completely covered with blotches of taw- 

 ney-olive, over which is a diffusion of seal brown and black 

 scrawls, lines and daubings. The fourth is nile blue almost im- 

 maculate, the few markings being of subdued lavender blurs and 



