144 BrACK-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 a little at each end. 



