144 BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. 
The eggs are four or five in number, of a pale purple 
brown, greenish, or brownish, or purple white colour, 
streaked and strongly spotted in a pleasing manner with 
a darker shade of the same; sometimes the end is 
delicately marked with a texture of fine lines. They 
are laid about the first week in May, and occasionally 
a second brood is produced in July. They are somewhat 
oblong, and taper alittle at each end. 
