164 FEINGILLID^l. 



Sporophila corvina (Sd.). 



Spermophila corvina, Salv. fy Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 355 



(1885); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B.M. xii. p. 337(1818); Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml .p. 106 (1899). 

 Sporophila corvina, Richmond, P. V. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 492 (1893) ; 



Ridgw. Birds North $ Middle Amer. i. p. 571 (1901) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 214 (1908). 



Four eggs of the Black Seed-eater resemble those of S. gutturalis 

 so closely as to render any separate description unnecessary. They 

 measure respectively : -7 by -52 ; -69 by -5 ; -68 by -5 ; '64 by '52. 



2. British Honduras (F. Blancaneaux). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 2. Chiriqui, Panama (Nehrkom Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MELOPYRRHA, Bonap. 

 Melopyrrha nigra (Linn.). 



Melopyrrha nigra, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 141 (1888) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 106 (1899) ; Ridgw. Birds North fy Middle Amer. 

 i. p. 562 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 215 (1908). 



An egg of the Cuban Seed-eater is of a rather long oval shape 

 and devoid of gloss. The ground-colour is creamy- white, densely 

 clouded with pale purplish-brown and purplish-grey and with a few 

 small markings and fine hair-lines of chocolate-brown. It measures 

 71 by -52. 



1. Cuba (Nehrkorn Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus EUETHIA, Eeiclienb. 



Euethia olivacea (Linn.). 



(Plate IX. fig. 15.) 



Spermophila olivacea, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 249 (1847). 



Spermophila adoxa, Gosse, torn. cit. p. 253. 



Phonipara lepida, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 145 (1888) [part.] ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 106 (1899) [part.]. 

 Euethia olivacea olivacea, Ridgw. Birds' North 8f Middle Amer. i. p. 530 



(1901). 

 Euethia olivacea, Sharpe, Hand-l. p. 215 (1908). 



The eggs of the Yellow-faced Grassquit are of a regular oval 

 shape and have a slight trace of gloss. They are white, speckled 

 and blotched with pale rufous and underlying violet-grey. The 

 markings are densest over the larger end of the egg, and in many 

 specimens they coalesce at that part and form a cap. Examples 



