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eggs; a peculiar set varying greatly in size and shape. Rounded 

 ovate in the smaller to elliptical ovate in the larger, which is an 

 unusually large specimen; .7ix. 677, .80x.64 and .94X..70 inch. The 

 ground color is grayish-white, almost completely covered with 

 broccoli blown, wood brown and faint drab-gray; on tbe two 

 s nailer eggs being of equal distribution in form of pin dots, 

 while on the larger specimen the wood brown predominates and 

 is chiefly in large blotches and spots. 



79. *Corvus amerioanus. American Crow. (Plate III, 

 No. 79).— May 1, 1893. Collected by John C Brown, Carthage, 

 Mo. Two fresh eggs; pale bluish -green with yellowish tinge; 

 the normal specimen has bold blotches of grayish and olive- 

 brown and smaller dots of deeper shades of brown, chiefly at 

 larger end ; the abnormal specimen is spherical and marked with 

 same colors which are thickest in two clusters, one at each end 

 of the longer axis; 1.56x1.22 and 1.4SS.1.S8 inches. 



80. Agelaius gubernator. Bicolored Blackbird. — 

 May 12, 1895. Collected by Edmund Heller, Riverside, Califor- 

 nia. Three normal eggs, incubation advanced, and one addled 

 (?) runt. One of the normal eggs broken in blowing; the re- 

 maining two are pale bluish -green, sparingly marked in form 

 of an irregular wreath around the larger end, with black, liver 

 brown and vinaceous-buff, while the runt has a decided grayish 

 tint, but is normally marked. In shape the normal eggs are 

 ovate and the runt is short oval or spherical; 1.05x76, 1.03x.74 

 and .56X.4.9 inches. 



81. Pipilo erythrophalmus. Towhee. — June 17, 1894. 

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

 eggs; all runts and spherical in appearance; white, heavily mark- 

 ed with specks, points and blotches of vinaceous and pale laven- 

 der, chiefly on the larger end; .76x.G7, .76x.G5 and .77x. 05 inch. 



82. Pipilo aberti. Abert's Towhee. (Plate III, No. 

 82).— May 14, 1896. Collected by Frank Bennett, Maricopa, Co., 

 Ariz. Four fresh eggs, one of which is a spherically shaped runt; 

 pale bluish-green, normally marked with lines, dots, scrawls and 

 specks of black, burnt sienna and heliotrope purple, chiefly on 

 the larger end; 1.04x.72, 1.02x.71, 1.03x.72 and .69X..56 inches. 



83. Cardinalis oardinalis. Cardinal. (Plate III, No. 

 83).— May 27, 1888. Collected by J. Warren Jacobs, near 

 Waynesburg, Pa. Two normal specimens and one small spheri- 

 cally shaped runt — containing no yolk. White with a grayish tint, 

 marked as follows: No. 1, (in engraving, upper right hand fig- 



* Originally described in "Bulletin No. 5, Wilson Ornithological Chap- 

 ter of the Agassiz Association. The American Crow. (Corvus americanus) 

 with special reference to its nest and eggs, by Frank L. Burns. 1895." 

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