378 



The markings are generally rather more dense at the broad end. 

 Three specimens measure respectively : -99 by -76 ; -96 by '73 ; 

 95 by -73. 



1. A jo, Buenos Ayres, 3rd Feb. Miss I. G. Runnacles [C.]. 



(with 4 eggs of M. rufo-axil- 

 laris, see p. 377). 



2. A jo, 17th Feb. (with 3 eggs of Miss I. G. Runnacles [C.]. 



M. rufo-axillaris). 



Genus AGEUEUS, Vieill. 

 Agelseus phoeniceus (Linn.}. 



Icterus phoeniceus, Thien. Fortvflanz. ges. Vo<j. tab. xxxvii. fi^. 2, a. b 



(1 845-54 j. 

 Agelaius phoeniceus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vb'y. tab. 76. fig. 14 (1855- 



63) ; Batrd, Brewer $ Riih/w. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 159 (1874) ; 



Bendire. Life-Hist. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 449, pi. vi. figs. 13, 14, 



15 (1895). ' 

 Agelseus phoeniceus, Coves, Birds N.-West, p. 186 (1874); Scl. Cat. 



Birds B. M. xi. p. 340 (1886 ; Seebohm, Eg (js of Brit. Birds, p. 231, 



pi. 54. fig. 18 (189*5)'; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 100 (1899), 



p. 342 (1910) ; Sharpe, Hand -1. v. p. 491 (1909). 

 Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus, Ridyio. Birds North 8f Middle Amer. ii. 



p. 330 (1902). 



The eggs of the Red-winged Blackbird, or Red-shouldered 

 Starling, are of an oval shape, and moderately glossy. They are 

 pale bluish-green, often clouded at the ends with greyish-pink 

 or pale brown and sparingly marked, chiefly at the broad end, with 

 spots, streaks, and lines resembling those on the eggs of some 

 of the Buntings. These markings are black, brown, deep purplish- 

 red, and pinkish-brown, many of them being blurred at the 

 margins and running into the surrounding ground-colour. 

 Numerous eggs measure from '9 to I'l in length, and from '67 

 to -75 in breadth. 



3. North America. Old Collection. 

 15. North America. Purchased. 



12. North America (Henshatv Coll.}. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

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



5. North America (T. M. B reiver : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 

 3. North America. Crowley Bequest. 



2. North America (D. G. Elliot : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



3. Fort Resolution, Gt. Slave Lake, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June (J. Lockhart : Smiths. 

 Inst.}. 

 2. Canada. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. Canada. Crowley Bequest. 



4. Verruillion, South Dakota, 30th W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



May. [P.]. 



4. Readville, Massachusetts, 20th W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 

 May. [P.]. 



