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No. 1: 2.30x1.80. Light bluish white, marked 
with reddish brown. The markings are nearly 
all at the larger end, where they are partly con- 
fluent, and form a wreath. No. 2: 2.28x1.81. 
Light bluish white, marked with large blotches of 
reddish brown. The spots are larger near the 
greater end. 
Set VII. Comal County, Texas, March 18, 1883. 
No. 1: 2.31x1.75. Very light bluish white, 
marked with bright reddish brown spots which 
are quite small, and inclined to form a circle near 
the larger end, where they are mostly found. No. 
2. 2.28x1.82. Very light bluish white, marked 
with bright reddish brown spots. These are 
clustered near the smaller end. This egg is 
slightly stained. 
Set VIII. Baxter, lowa, March 17, 1885. No. 
1: 2.41x1.84. Bluish white, marked with a large 
number of different sized blotches of very bright 
reddish brown. No. 2: 2.37x2.00. Bluish white, 
very heavily marked with large blotches of very 
bright reddish brown. Some of the blotches are 
confluent at the larger end. These are the 
largest eggs, and the most heavily colored in the 
series; and it is doubtful if a handsomer set of 
this species was ever found. Their size is also 
unusual. 
Set IX. Washington, Connecticut, April 14, 
1884. No. 1: 2.33x2.00. Bluish white, smeared 
all over with brownish, giving the egg the appear- 
ance of having been stained.* A few reddish 
brown spots. No. 2: 2.34x1.99. Bluish white, 
entirely unspotted. 
Set X. Baxter, Iowa, April 9, 1885. This set 
is particularly interesting, as it originally consisted 
of four eggs, but one of them was found so badly 
broken in the nest that it was impossible to pre- 
serve it. No.1: 2.40x1.81. Dull white, spotted 
with brown. The spots are small, and closer to- 
gether at the large end. The surface is also nest- 
stained. No. 2: 2.82x1.89. Dull white, marked 
with faint brownish and light purplish streaks, 
pretty evenly distributed over the whole egg, but 
rather thicker at the largerend. No.3: 2.48x1.91. 
Dull white, very faintly streaked with light gray. 
Appears unmarked at a short distance. 
Set XI. Washington, Connecticut, May 25, 
1884. No. 1: 2.29x1.82. Dull white, marked 
with faint brown and purplish spots and specks. 
No. 2: 2.44x1.83. Dull white, faintly marked 
with indistinct specks of brown, and light pur- 
plish, principally near the smaller end. 
Set XII. Washington, Pennsylvania, April 17, 
1884. No. 1: 2.87x1.91. Dull white, faintly 
marked with light brown all over the surface. 
Tas exactly the appearance of mud, but it is not. 
No, 2: 2.44x1.79. Dull white, faintly marked 
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with light brown over the wholeegg. Thespecks 
and spots tend to become confluent near the 
larger end. 
Set XIII. Washington, Pennsylvania, March 
13, 1884. No.1: 2.45x1.86. Dingy white, stained 
all over the surface, and marked with a few small 
spots of brown. No. 2: 237x1.84. Dingy white, 
very much stained. Marked with light purplish 
and a few brownish spots. 
Set XIV. Washington, Connecticut, April 24, 
1888. No. 1: 2.20x1.80. Dull white, with a few 
streaks of brown. Very much stained. No. 2: 
2.23x1.84. Dull white, marked with small brown 
spots. Much stained. 
Set XV. Washington, Connecticut April 18, 
1884. No. 1: 2.89x1.78. Dull white, marked 
with brown spots, which are thicker at the greater 
end. No. 2: 2.381x1.84. Dull white, marked with 
brown, which is splashed around the greater end. 
Stained. 
Set XVI. 
1884, 
Washington, Connecticut, April 9, 
No. 1: 2.17x1.80. Dingy white, much 
stained. Marked all over the surface with small 
spots of brown. No. 2: 2.20x1.78. Dingy white, 
stained. Marked over the whole surface with 
small brown spots. 
Set XVII. Washington, Connecticut, April 23, 
1884. No.1: 2.43x1.87. Dingy white, stained. 
Very faintly marked with a few indistinct light 
gray specks. At a short distance it appears 
wholly unmarked. No. 2: 2.36x1.90. Dingy 
white, stained. Beautifully marked with bright 
brown blotches and spots. The former form an 
indistinct circle at the larger end, where they are 
confluent. 
Set XVIII. Washington, Connecticut, April 
8, 1884. No. 1: 2.48x2.00. Dull white, stained. 
Marked with blotches of bright brown, more 
towards thesmaller end. No. 2: 2.47x1.00. Dingy 
white, stained. Marked with blotches of light 
brown, and light purplish, mostly at the larger end. 
Set XIX. Washington, Connecticut, April 19, 
1884. No. 1: 2.49x1.96. Dingy white, much 
stained. Indistintly marked with light purplish. 
A very pointed egg for this species. No, 2: 2,42 
x1.80. Dingy white, much stained. Boldly 
marked with dark brown spots, tending to forma 
circle around the smaller end. Also some indis- 
tinct spots of light purplish. Quite pointed. 
No. 8: 2.89x1.80. Dingy white, very much 
stained. Marked with brown blotches, more of 
them near the smaller end, All three of the eggs 
in this set are unusually pointed for Buteo borealis. 
Set XX. Iowa City, Iowa, April 11,1881. No. 
1: 2.41x1.93. Dingy white, very much stained. 
Boldly marked with large blotches of bright 
brown, becoming confluent at smaller end. No. 
