260 THE Wttson BULLETIN—Nos. 76-77. 
ened, the markings in the shell will come out quite strong. 
R. M. Barnes gives at some length the markings upon a set 
collected June 10, °07, at Hyde Park, Mana., by C. P. Forge. 
All three show the effects of rotary action in the oviduct before 
the excessive deposition of pigment had thoroughly set, but 
curiously spiral or screw-like in formation, as if in progression. 
H. S. Hathway took two sets at East Greenwich, R. I., in which 
some of the eggs were strikingly similar to specimens of the 
Red-shouldered Hawk. Referring to Bendire’s plate 7, No. 1 is 
like his figure 2 of the Red-shoulder, No. 2 like his figure 12 but 
more evenly speckled, and No. 3 similar but more color on small 
end, and all in size and shape as his figure 12 of the Broad-wing. 
No. 1 of his second set is almost identical with figure 13, No. 2 
like figure 3 of the Red-shoulder, only more heavily marked, 
and No. 3 similar to figure 5 of same species, only more evenly 
marked. A set in the collection of T. H. Jackson, was taken 
by G. L. Hamlin at Bethel, Ct., and is described as of the size 
and shape of Swallow-tailed Nite’s:eggs and almost as hand- 
somely marked. Ground-color, creamy-white, heavily blotched 
with two-shades of brown, heaviest about larger.ends. On the 
surface of one egg in a set of three collected by Albert Lock- 
wood for John Gath, Lorrington, Ct., and described by J. 
Warren Jacobs, there appear markings in the form of the bust 
of a man in colonial dress, holding cocked hat in hand near 
left shoulder. Placed under a glass the blotches lose all re- 
semblance of course. J. H. Flanagan tock a set in Kent Co., 
R. I. on May 19 and 27, 06; the first heavily marked with ru- 
fous. the larger end covered as thickly as a Duck Hawk's egg, 
the remainder more sparingly and evenly marked; the second 
beautifully marked over the entire surface with large splashes 
of lilac and a few of rufous. Gerard A. Abbott describes a set 
in his collection selected from over a hundred eggs, taken at 
Minneapolis, Minn. Two eggs are almost completely covered 
over one-third with a peculiar brick-red on the smaller ends; 
the third is blotched about eaually over entire surface and some 
of the markings are heliotrope. A similar set is described by 
Richards from the collection of Lorenzo Plackstone, Norwich, 
