ICTKHUS. EUrilAGUS. 395 



Icterus leucopteryx ( Wayl.). 

 (Plate XVII. figs. 18 & 21.) 



Icterus leucopteryx, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 226 (1847) ; Scl. Cat. 

 Birds B. M. xi. p. 387 (1886) ; Ridgw. Birds North $ Middle 

 Amer. ii. p. 303 (llK)2) ; Sfiarpe, Hand-l. v. p. 505 (1909). 



Eggs of the Jamaican Hangnest or Banana-Bird are of a rather 

 pointed oral shape, and almost or quite devoid of: gloss. The 

 ground is pale huffy-white or brownish-white with a tracery of 

 line lines and blotched lines round the cap, one specimen being 

 especially handsomely and boldly marked. Three eggs measure 

 respectively : -98 by -68 ; -96 by -66 ; and '93 by -66. 



1 . Jamaica. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Port Henderson, Jamaica, 27th Crowley Bequest. 



June (C. B. Taylor}. 



Genus EUPHAGUS, Cassin. 



Euphagus carolinus (P. L. S. Mull.). 



Scolecophagus ferruginous, Baird, Brewer fy Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. 

 p. 203 (1874) ; Banks, Auk, ii. p. 106 (1885; ; Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. 

 xi. p. 390 (1886) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 103 (1899). 



Scolecophagus carolinus, MacFarlane, Proc. U. IS. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 440 

 (1891) ; Bendire, Life-Hut. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 489, pi. vii. 

 rigs. 14-16 (1895) ; Ridgw. Birds North # Middle Amer. ii. p. 246 

 (1902). 



Euphagus carolinus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 506 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat Eier- 

 samml. p. 340 (1910). 



The eggs of the Rusty Grackle are of two types. In one, they 

 are of an ordinary, but somewhat pointed, oval shape, moderately 

 glossy, and pale bluish-green, blotched, smeared and mottled with 

 pale brown or pinkish-brown and lavender-grey. In the second 

 type, the eggs are of a blunt oval shape, almost elliptical, and 

 rather highly glossy. They are greenish-grey, very densely mottled 

 all over with dark brow r n and dull lavender, little of the ground 

 being visible. Eight examples measure from 1 to I'l in length, 

 and from '72 to '77 in breadth. 



1. [North- West America] (/. J. Au- Crowley Bequest. 



ditbon : Tristram Coll.}. 



3. North- West America. Gould Coll. 



1. Anderson River, Arctic America, Salvin-Godmam Coll. 



June (E. MacFarlane: Hen- 



shaw Coll.). 

 3. Anderson River, June (R. MacF. : Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Smiths. Inst.). 



