19 

 minute specks of cinnamon, chiefly in form of a wreath around 

 the greater end. Ovate; 1.08x.80, 1 llx.82, 1.08x.Sl and 1.14x.84 

 inches. 



12. Habia ludoviciana. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 

 (Plate I, No. 12) .-June 5, 1895. Collected by W. J. Wirt, 

 Gaines, N. Y., and secured from E. H. Short, Albion, N. Y. 

 Four fresh eggs, pale bluish -green— quite like freshly blown 

 eggs of the Bluebird (Sialia sialis); Two are wholly immaculate 

 and two nearly so; these being marked, chiefly on the larger ends, 

 with faint russet-brown. Elliptical ovate; .97x.68, .98x.66, .98x 

 .68 and .98x.64 inch. 



13. Passerina cyanea. Indigo Bunting.— May 24, 1896. 

 Collected by J. Warren Jacobs, Greene Co., Pa. Three fresh 

 eggs, pure white,^ otherwise normal;— ,72x.55, .74x.55 and .74x 

 .55 inch. 



14. Chelidon erythrogastra. Barn Swallow. (Plate 

 I, No. 14).— June 18, 1897. Collected by W. J. Wirt, Gaines, N. 

 Y. Six highly incubated eggs ; white, five are normally speckled 

 with brown of varying shades and lavender, and one is immacu- 

 late save for two small specks on the larger end, .72x.54, .80x.55, 

 • 80x.54, .78x.55, .75x.55 and .75x.56 inch. 



15. Goethlypis formosa. Kentucky Warbler. (Plate 

 I, No. 15).— June 16, 1897. Collected by J. Warren Jacobs, near 

 Waynesburg,Pa. Four eggs containing medium embryos ; white, 

 three are normally wreathed around the larger ends with cinna- 

 mon-rufous and heliotrope purple, while the fourth has only a 

 very smaH circular patch on the smaller end; .78x.59, .76x.59, .69x 

 .57 and .74x.60 inch. This is a second laying, the first set having 

 been taken May 24, within a few yards of the present site. 



16. Icteria virens. Yellow-breasted Chat.— May 26, 

 1891. Collected by J. Warren Jacobs, near Waynesburg, Pa.' 

 Four fresh eggs, sparingly markea with unusually bold blotches of 

 lavender, heliotrope purple and reddish-brown, on the whole 

 closely resembling eggs of the Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus). .96x 

 .70, .99x.68, .93x.70 and .H3x.69 inch. 



17. Icteria virens Yellow-breasted Chat.— July 2. 

 1893. Collected by J. Warren Jacobs, near Waynesburg, Pa! 

 Three fresh eggs; white, two are typically marked with reddish 

 brown and lavender and one sparingly blotched with heliotrope 

 purple and reddish brown, and except in size cannot be distin- 

 guished from the average egg of the Kingbird. ,85x.66, .85x.68 and 

 .87x.68 inch. This set was accompanied by an egg of the Cow- 

 bird (Molothrus ater.) 



Note.— When considered together with a large series of 



