MNIOTILTlDJS. 



An egg of the Pine-Warbler resembles many of the eggs of D. cestiva. 

 It measures -7 by '5. 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Crowley Bequest. 



Dendroeca discolor, Vieitt. 



Dendroica discolor, Baird, Brewer 8f Ridgiv. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 270 



(1874). 

 Dendroeca discolor, Cones, Birds N.-West, p. 63 (1874); Salv. fy Godm. 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 142 (1881) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



x. p. 307 (1885) ; Coues, Auk, 1888, p. 405 ; Nehrk. Kai. EiersammL 



p. 89 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 110 (1906). 



The eggs of the Prairie-Warbler vary from a narrow to a broad 

 oval form and are slightly glossy. They are white, speckled, spotted 

 and sometimes blotched, chiefly at the broad end, with reddish- 

 brown, purplish-brown, and lavender or lilac. They measure from 

 62 to -67 in length, and from -46 to '51 in breadth. 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. North America (Henshaw Coll.}. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Con- W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



necticut, 5th July (/. N. [P.] 



Clark). 



Genus OPORORNIS, Baird. 



* 



Oporornis formosa ( Wils.). 



(Plate IV. fig. 1.) 



Oporornis formosus, Coues, Birds N.- West, p. 73 (1874) ; Baird, Brewer 



$ Eidgw. N. Amer. Birds, \. p. 293 (1874). 

 Oporornis formosa, Salv. fy Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 148 



(1881) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 348 (1885) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 89 (1899); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. Ill (1906). 



The eggs of the Kentucky Warbler are of a pointed, broad oval 

 form and moderately glossy. They are white, speckled and spotted, 

 rather densely at the broad end, with reddish-brown and lavender. 

 A few larger markings, of the nature of blotches, are scattered over 

 the shell, here and there. Specimens measure from '7 to '8 in 

 length, and from *6 to *62 in breadth. 



2. North America. Crowley Bequest. 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Washington, D.C., 15lh June (Hen- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 shaw Coll.). 



1. Chester Co.. Pennsylvania. Princeton University, N.J. 



[E.]. 



2. Green Co., Pennsylvania, 28th May W . Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



(J. W. Jacobs). [P.]. 



