160 FRINGILLID.E. 



larger end where the markings form a dense cap. They measure 

 respectively -82 by -54 and -82 by -56. 



2. Grenada (J. G. Wells). Crowley Bequest. 



Pyrrhulagra barbadensis, Gory. 



Loxigilla barbadensis, Cory, Auk, iii. p. 382 (1886) ; Feilden, Ibis, 1889, 



p. 483. 



Loxigilla noctis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 84 (1888) [part.]. 

 Pyrrhulagra barbadensis, Ridgw. Birds North fy Middle Amer. i. p. 561 



(1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 206 (1908). 



Six eggs of the Barbados Grosbeak are of a rather narrow oval 

 shape and devoid of gloss. They are white, speckled and blotched 

 with pale reddish-brown and underlying violet-grey. The markings 

 generally form a broad zone round the larger end of the egg. They 

 measure from *77 to '8 in length, and from -55 to -6 in breadth. 



3. Barbados, 15th May. Col. H. W. Feilden [P.]. 

 3. Barbados, 18th May. Col. H. W. Feilden [P.]. 



Genus LOXIIPASSER, Bryant. 

 Loxiipasser anoxanthus (Gosse). 



Spermophila anoxantha, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 247 (1847). 



Loxigilla anoxantha, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 85 (1888) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml. p. 105 (1899). 

 Loxipasser anoxanthus, Ridgw. Birds North 8f Middle Amer. i. p. 546 



(1901). 

 Loxiipasser anoxanthus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 207 (1908). 



Eggs of the Yellow-shouldered Grass-quit are of an oval shape 

 and without gloss. They are white, speckled and blotched, more 

 thickly on the broader half of the egg than elsewhere, with pale 

 reddish-brown and underlying grey. They measure from -7 to *77 

 in length, and from -51 to *57 in breadth. 



5. Jamaica. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Jamaica (W. Osburn: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 

 Coll.}. 



Genus SPOEOPHILA, Cab. 



Sporophila grisea (Gmel.). 



(Plate IX. fig. 9.) 



Spermophila grisea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 96 (1888). 

 Sporophila grisea, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 208 (1908). 



Four eggs of the Venezuelan Seed-eater are of an almost perfect 

 oval shape and slightly glossy. In three the ground-colour is 

 white, blotched and spotted all over with reddish- or purplish -brown 

 and lilac-grey and with a few scattered spots of dark brown. In 



