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oval shape and are slightly glossy. Some are greenish-white, 

 mottled and smeared with pale brown and marked with a few spots 

 of a darker brown. Others are greyish-white, or greenish- white, 

 smeared and blotched with dull brick-red and pale underlying 

 lavender-grey or very finely marked all over with the same colour. 

 They measure from -7 to -83 in length, and from -55 to -0 in 

 breadth. 



3. North America (H. Buckley : Crowley Bequest. 

 Tristram Coll.). 



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



2. North America (Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Princeton, New Jersey, 24th May Princeton University, N.J. 



( W. E. D. Scott). [E.]. 



4. Princeton, 28th May (W. E. Princeton University, N.J. 



D. S.)! [E.]. 



2. Princeton, 6th June (W. E. D. S.). Princeton University, N.J. 



[E.]. 



4. Pennsylvania (T. M. Brewer). H. E. Dresser, Esq. [E.]. 



4. Taunton, Massachusetts. 2nd June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Eeq, 



[P.l. 

 8. Taunton, 2nd June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Genus PASSERELLA, Swains. 

 Passerella iliaca (Merrem). 



Fringilla iliaca, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vb'g. p. 394, tab. xxxiv. fig. 3, a-c 



(1845-54). 

 Passerella iliaca, Ross, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1862, p. 282 ; id. Canad. Nat. 



vii. p. 147 (1862) ; Baird, Brewer 8f Ridgiv. N. Amer. Birds, ii. 



p. 50 (1874); Coues, Birds N.-West, p. 160 (1874); Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xii. p. 716 (1888) ; MacFarlane, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



xiv. p. 443 (1891) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 117 (1899) ; Sharpe, 



Handrl. v. p. 314 (19U9). 

 Passerella iliaca iliaca, Ridgiv. Birds North fy Middle Amer. i. p. 386 



(1901). 



The eggs of the Fox-coloured Sparrow vary from a blunt oval 

 to a perfectly elliptical shape and are moderately glossy. They 

 are very pale green, densely mottled, blotched and smeared with 

 bright brick-red. Here and there, traces of underlying grey may 

 be detected. The surface-markings are confluent over the broad 

 end and frequently over the whole surface of the egg. Specimens 

 measure from '9 to '96 in length, and from -62 to '7 in breadth. 



2. 100 miles N. of the Porcupine R., Crowley Bequest. 

 Alaska (J. Lockhart : Tris- 

 tram Coll.). 



2. Peel River, British N. America Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (J. L. : Smiths. Inst.). 



5. Fort Simpson, British N America. B. R. Ross, Esq. 



2. Fort Simpson. B. R. Ross, Esq. 



3. Fort Simpson. B. R. Ross, Esq. 



