250 VIREONIDJE. AMPELID^E. 



The eggs of Bell's Greenlet in the Collection are very faintly 

 speckled with rufous at the broad end only. They measure re- 

 spectively : -7 by -5 ; -68 by -5. 



2. Texas. Crowley Bequest. 



Vireo modestus, Scl. 

 (Plate XI. fig. 12.) 



Vireo noveboracensis (nee Gm.), Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 192 (1847). 

 Vireo modestus, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 303 (1883) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. iv.'p. 252 (1903). 



The eggs of the Plain Greenlet differ from those of the other 

 species of Greeulets in being very boldly marked, the spots and 

 blotches forming a strongly-defined band round or about the broad 

 end. Two examples measure respectively : *78 by '55 ; '79 by "57. 



2. Kingston, Jamaica, 15th May Crowley Bequest. 



(C.B. Taylor}. 



Family AMPELID^E. 



Genus AMPELIS, Linn. 



Ampelis garrulus, Linn. 



Bombycilla garrula, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 52. fig. 20 (1855-63) ; 



ffiottey, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 55, Aves, pi. cxxii. ; von Nordm. J. f. O. 



1858, p. 307, 1859, taf. i. figs, a, b; Wheelwright, A Spring and 



Summer in Lapland, p. 279 (1871). 

 Arnpelis garrulus, Neivton, Ibis, 1861, p, 92, pi. iv. ; Dresser, Birds Eur. 



iii. p~ 429 (1873) ; Seetohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 3, pi. 11 (1884) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 212 (1885) ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 233, pi. 54. fig. 19 (1896); Wolky $ Newton, Ootheca 



Wolleyana, pt. ii. p. 212, pi. x. (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 259 



(1903). 



Eggs of the "Waxwing are of a regular oval shape, but some 

 specimens have the smaller end compressed and pointed. They 

 have a moderate amount of gloss. They are greyish blue, sometimes 

 with an olive tinge, very distinctly spotted all over with black or 

 deep blackish brown and underlying lavender-grey. Some of the 

 darker spots have their edges blurred and running into the sur- 

 rounding ground-colour. The markings, in all the examples in the 

 Collection, are remarkably evenly spread over the w r hole shell and 

 there is never any tendency for them to form a cap at the broad 

 end of the egg. Specimens measure from '86 to 1*02 in length, 

 and from '65 to '7 in breadth. 



1. Lapland (J. Wolley). Seebohra Coll. 



JL Lapland (J. W.}. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Lapland, 12th June (J. W.}. Seebohm Coll. 



