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are) has innumerable small specks over all the shell, which is 

 overlaid with a diffusion of bold blotches of chestnut, cinnamon- 

 rufous and lavender, chiefly on the larger end; No. 2, on this 

 one the markings are less bold, the lavender approaches helio- 

 trope purple and the browns become vinaceous-cinnamon; No. 

 3, mottled all over with same colors as No. 1. Size in the order 

 described; 1.04X.74, 1.06x.74 and .60^.50 inches. The shell of 

 the runt is unusually thick. 



84. Cardinalis cardinalis. Cardinal. (Plate III, No. 

 84). — May 5, 1891. Collected by J. Warren Jacobs, near Waynes- 

 burg, Pa. Three slightly incubated eggs, one being a spherically 

 shaped runt with an unusually thick shell. It is my firm belief 

 that this and the preceding set is the product of the same fe- 

 male, so precise are the characteristics. No. 1 in this set is pre- 

 cisely like No. 1 of the preceding, except that the chestnut mark- 

 ings are less intense; No. 2 truly represents the color charac- 

 teristics of No. 3 of the former, and just as truly No. 3 of this 

 represents No. 2 of the same preceding set; .99x.72, .99x.71 and 

 .75x.62 inch. 



The locality in which I collected these two sets of Cardinal 

 is a section of pasture land, mostly on a hillside and bordered 

 by a large woods on the higher ground, and margined by a small 

 stream (Smith Creek; in the lowland, and lies three-quarters of 

 a mile south of Waynesburg, and is known locally as "Sayers' 

 Barn Field." For many years it was overgrown with various 

 kinds of bushes and briers, and in some parts rank grass and 

 weeds; but sometime after I took the set on May 27, 1888, which 

 was centrally located in a thorny tree in a little ravine, men 

 were put to work clearing the field, destroying this truly typical 

 home of innumerable pairs of Chats, Towhees, Field, Chipping 

 and Song Sparrows, Cardinals, Catbirds and Indigo Buntings. 

 Fortunately for the birds, the growth along the creek bank was 

 left undisturbed, affording nesting sites for several of the spe- 

 cies, conspicuous among which was the Cardinal and Catbird. 

 It was on this sparsely fringed creek bank where the abnormal 

 set was taken in 1891, directly opposite where the little ravine 

 puts through the brush into the creek and less than two hundred 

 yards from the former site. 



85. Cardinalis cardinalis. Cardinal.— May 14, 1893. 

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

 eggs, one of which is elongate ovate and two are cylindrical ovate. 

 White, normally speckled and blotched with vinaceous-cinna- 

 mon, lavender and heliotrope purple, chiefly on larger end; 

 1.04^.68, 1.07^.67 and l.llx.64 inches. 



86 . Piranga ery thromelas . Scarlet Tanager. — May 30 , 



