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 color more nearly glaucous-green than emerald green, marked 

 chiefly in form of a ring around the larger end, with black,burnt 

 umber and heliotrope purple on the normal eggs. The runt is 

 similarly marked but the heliotrope becomes brick red; .72x.53, 

 .76x.53, .74x.52, .73x.52 and 48^.38 inch. Elliptical ovate. 



46. Melospiza fasciata heermanni. Heeeman's Song 

 SPARRow.-May 1, 1891. Collected by Ray L.Wilbur, Riverside, 

 Cal. Four eggs; three normal and one runt; incubation begun. 

 Pale bluish-green, marked with chestnut, vinaceous cinnamon 

 and lavender gray, chiefly on the larger end of the three normal 

 and on the smaller end of runt. Ovate; .78x.59, .78x.61 .79x.58 

 and .6.5x.4<? inch. 



47. Cardinalis cardinalis. Cardinal.— May 10, 1893. 

 Collected by J. Warren Jacobs, near Waynesburg, Pa. Three 

 eggs, one of which is a runt; incubation slight in the normal 

 specimens; white with grayish tint, normally speckled witb cin- 

 namon rufous, ecru drab, heliotrope purple and pale lavender, 

 chiefly on the larger end,where on one a distinct wreath is seen 

 Ovate; 1.01x.74, .97x.74 and .80^.56 inch. 



48. Cardinalis cardinalis. Cardinal.— May 21 1895 

 Collected by J. Warren Jacobs, Greene Co., Pa. Two normal 

 and one runt egg; fresh; white, with faint greenish tint, blotch- 

 ed and dotted with russet, heliotrope and pale lavender, dis- 

 tributed pretty evenly over the surface, the largest blotches, 

 however, are clustered on the greater end. Ovate; 1.00x74 

 1.00x.70 and .88x.65 inch. 



49. Passerina cyanea. Indigo Bunting.— August 3, 1892 

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

 eggs, exhibiting wide variation in size, one is extremely large 

 and two very small —for this species,-faint bluish white El- 

 liptical ovate; .83x.57, JOtl.53 and .6Tx.,5i inch. 



• 50 Chelidpn erythrogastra. Barn Swallow.— July 18 

 1897. Collected by W. J. Wirt, near Ridgeway, Orleans Co., N. 

 J. Three normal and one runt; white, marked with pale laven- 

 der, heliotrope purple and cinnamon-rufous, chiefly in form of 

 an irregular wreath around the larger end. On the normal 

 specimens the blotches are of the usual tvpe, but on the runt 

 they are very minute. Ovate; .75x.51, .73x.52, .76x.52and .68X.48 

 inch. 



51. Clivicola riparia. Bank Swallow.— May 16, 1894 

 Collected by R. W. Johnson, Port Hope, Ont., Can. Four eggs,all 

 below the average size, one being a rnnt; white; two of the nor- 

 mal specimens are elliptical ovate, while others are ovate- 70x 

 .49, .68x49, .67X.49 and .6OX.43 inch ' 



