SI'OKOIMIILA. 



the fourth egg the creamy-white ground-colour is almost entirely 

 hidden, being densely spotted and blotched all over with dull 

 reddish-umber-brown and grey. They measure respectively : *68 by 

 5 ; -OS by -5 ; 7 by -48 ; and 7 by -54. 



1. Venezuela. W. Eadcliffe Saunders. Esq. 



[P.I 



1. Venezuela. W. Hadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.l. 



2. [\ enezuela.] Crowley Bequest. 



Sporophila obscura (Tacz.). 

 (Plate IX. fig. 10.) 



Spermopliila obscura, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 101 (1888) ; 



Holland, Ibis, 1892, p. 196, 



The White-throated Finch, Holland, Ibis, 1890, p. 426. 

 Sporophila obscura, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 209 (1908). 



The eggs of the White-throated Grosbeak are somewhat broad 

 ovals and devoid of gloss. Two specimens are very pale bluish- 

 white, speckled sparingly, and only on the larger half of the egg, 

 with blackish-brown and pale pink. Two other specimens are 

 bluish-white, spotted and blotched with black, umber-brown and 

 dull underlying grey. The markings are most dense at the broad 

 end and are there intermingled with a few fine black lines and 

 scrolls. Four examples measure respectively : -68 by -5 ; -67 by 

 51 ; -65 by '52 ; '68 by '51. 



2. Argentina, Nov. A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.I. 



i>. Argentina, Nov. A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.J. 



Sporophila minuta (Linn.). 



Spermophila minuta, Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 506 ; Salv. & Godm. 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aces, i. p. 351 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xii. p. 109 (1888) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml p. 105 (1899) ; Ihenmj, 



Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv. p. 213 (1900). 

 Sporophila minuta minuta, Ridgw. Birds North fy Middle Amer. i. p. 567 



(1901). 

 Sporophila minuta, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 209 (1908). 



Eggs of the Red-bellied Seed-eater are of a blunt oval shape and 

 without any gloss. They are white, sparingly marked with 

 blotches and spots of dark chocolate-brown and profusely sprinkled 

 all over with small specks and dots of pale rufous and lilac-grey. 

 They measure from '65 to -66 in length, arid from -5 to '53 in 

 breadth. 



2. Medellin,Antioquia, U.S.Colombia Salvin-G odman Coll. 



(T. K. Salmon}. 



2. Medellin (T. K. .). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Medelliii (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Medellia (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



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