212 TYEANNIDJE. 



The eggs of the Black-billed Tyrant-bird are of a regular oval 

 shape, and almost devoid of gloss. They are of a creamy-white 

 colour, spotted, chiefly round the broad end, with rusty brown and 

 lilac-grey. Two examples measure respectively : '7 by '52 ; *72 

 by -53. 



2. Jamaica. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus EMPIDONOMUS, Cab. $ Heine. 



Empidonomus varius ( Vieill.). 

 (Plate V. fig. 16.) 



Empidonomus varius, ScL Cat. Birds B. M. xiv. p. 265 (1888) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 143 (1889) ; von Iheriny, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv. 

 p. 237 (1900) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 148 (1901). 



The eggs of the Striated Tyrant-bird in the Collection are of a 

 blunt oval form, and almost devoid of all gloss. They are cream- 

 coloured, marked with more or less confluent streaks and blotches 

 of rich umber-brown, purple, and lavender-grey. They measure 

 respectively : -83 by -63 ; -82 by -62. 



2. Iguap6, Brazil, llth Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



Empidonomus inca (Scl.). 

 (Plate V. figs. 14 & 15.) 



Empidonomus aurantio-atro-cristatus, ScL Cat. Birds B. M. xiv. p. 266 



(1888) ; id. $ Huds. Argent. Orn. \. p. 157 (1888) ; Nehrk. Kat. 

 Eiersamml. p. 143 (1899) ; von Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv. p. 237 

 (1900). 

 Empidonomus inca, Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 148 (1901). 



Two eggs, said to be those of the Black-and- Yellow-crested Tyrant- 

 bird, differ from each other. One is of a narrow oval form and of a 

 pinkish cream-colour, marked round the broad end with a wide 

 band of confluent smears and spots of pale rusty, purplish brown, 

 and lavender-grey. The second is of a broad oval shape and cream- 

 coloured, marked, chiefly at the broad end, with well-defined spots 

 of blackish brown and lavender-grey. They measure respectively : 

 86 by *59 ; -88 by -66. 



2. Argentine Republic. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus TYRANNUS, Guv. 



Tyranrms tyrannus (Linn.). 



Tyrannus carolinensis, Lord, Proc. R. A. Inst., Woolwich, iv. p. 338 

 (1865) ; Baird, Brewer fy Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 316 (1874). 



Tyrannus pipiri, Scl Cat. Birds B. M. xiv. p. 267 (1888) ; Salv. $ Godm. 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer.f Aves, ii. p. 97 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml 

 p. 143 (1899). 



