312 



Brewer records eggs with the ground-colour of " a light shade of 

 emerald-green, marked with various shades of brown, more or less 

 tinged with lilac, purple and slate." 



.3. Near Kansas Citv. Missouri, 18th W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



June. [P.]. 



Pyranga rubra (Linn.}. 

 (Plate XIII. fig. 12.) 



Pyranga rubra, Baird, Brewer fy Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 435 



(1874) ; Salo. $ Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves,i. p. 287 (1883) ; 



Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 188 (183(5) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 



p. 96 (1899), p. 327 (1910) ; Sharpe, Hand-L v. p. 386 (1909). 

 liranga erythromelas, Ridgiv. Birds North Sf Middle Amer. ii. p. 88 



(1902). 



The eggs of the Scarlet Tanager are of a broad oval shape and 

 exhibit a small amount of gloss. They are pale greenish- blue, 

 thickly spotted and blotched with pale reddish-brown and lilac- 

 grey. The markings are more numerous as well as larger at the 

 broad end, and in oue example form a large ill-defined cap. 

 They measure from *85 to *96 in length, and from '68 to *72 in 

 breadth. 



2. North America (Henshaiv Coll.). Salvin-Godmam Coll. 



1. Pennsylvania (C. J. Pennock). Princeton "diversity, N.J. 



1. New Jersey (D. G. Elliot : Tris- Crowley Bequest. 

 tram Coll.}. 



3. Eastford, Connecticut, 6th June Crowley Bequest. 



(Rev. J. Jones}. 



4. Ilyds Park, Illinois, 2nd June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Pyranga bidentata, Swains. 



Pyranga bidentata, Salv. fy Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aic-s, i. p. 

 (1883); Scl. Cut. Birds B. M. xi. p. 190 (1886) [part.J ; She 



296 

 inrpe, 



Hand-L v. p. 386 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 327 (1910). _ 

 Piranga bidentata bidentata, Itidgw. Birds North fy Middle Amer. ii. 

 p. 95 (1902). 



An egg of Swainson's Tanager is of a regular oval shape and 

 slightly glossy. The ground-colour is pale greenish-blue sparingly 

 marked, almost entirely at the larger end, with small spots of 

 purplish-black and lilac-grey. It measures '97 by '72. 



1. Escasu, Costa Rica, 19th May. Mr. C. F. Underwood [C.]. 



