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The eggs of the Argentine Cow-bird are of an extremely short, 

 broad oval form, many specimens being spheroidal, and they possess 

 a considerable amount of gloss. They are very variable in colour. 

 ]NIa n v are plain white ; others are white marked with specks of grey 

 or faint lavender; others are white or cream-colour, densely 

 spci'kled with chestnut and lavender; and others again are not 

 only speckled as in these last, but are also heavily blotched, 

 especially at the broad end, with deep chestnut-red and purplish- 

 j;rey. They measure from *8 to 1 in length, and from *7 to "8 in 

 breadth. 



2. Brazil (AW/r7.wtt Coll. : Tristram 



Coll.). 

 1. Brazil (with 2 eggs of Brachy- 



*j)iza pileata, see p. 276). 

 1. Brazil ( with 3 eggs of B pileata). 

 1 . Brazil (with 3 eggs of B.pileata). 



1. Brazil (with 4 eggs of B. pileata). 

 1 . Brazil (with 3 eggs of B.pileata). 



1 1). Argentine Republic, Sept.-Dec. 

 (i. Argentine Republic. 



0. Argentine Republic ( W. H. Hud- 



son). 



8. Buenos Ayres ( W. H. H.) (with 

 1 egg ot MilvuJus tyrannus). 



3. Buenos Ayres (with egg of 



l>r a cJiysp iza pileata) . 



2. Buenos Ayres (with egg of 



Milculus tyrannus). 



2. Buenos Ayres ^with egg of M. 



tyrannus). 



3. Bueuos Ayres (with 3 eggs of 



Pseudoleistes virescens, see p. 383). 



1. Buenos Ayres (with 4 eggs of 



P. virescens). 



1. Buenos Ayres (with 2 eggs of 



Anthus correndera, see p. 108). 



2. Buenos Ayres (with 5 eggs of 



Serphophaga niyricans). 



3. Buenos Ayres. 



17. Buenos Ayres ( W. H. H.). 



1. Ajo, Buenos Ayres, 13th Nov. 



(C. H. B. Grant) (with 3 eggs 

 of Brachyspiza pileata). 

 f>. Ajo, 9th Dec. (C. H. B. G.) (in 

 nest of B. pileata). 



2. Aj 6, 1 8th Jan. ( C. H. B. G. ) (with 



'2 eggs of B. pileata). 

 1. Ajo, 29th Dec. ( C. //. B. G.) (with 

 8 eggs of M. rufo-axillaris in 

 nest of M. badius, built inside 

 an old nest of Anumbius acuti- 

 cauduSj see p. 377). 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 W. Radcline Saunders. Esq. 



[P.]. 



A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. ' 



P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. II. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.], 

 W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. II . Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 



W. H. Hudson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Ernest Gibson, Esq. [P.]. 



Ernest Gibson, Esq. [P.], 

 Ernest Gibson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Ernest Gibson, Esq. [P.]. 



