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of the first and second eggs of first set, the color all run to- 
gether and bleached out as if pigment was about exhausted. 
Around the smaller end are streaks of lilac and brown that 
look as if laid on with a brush foul with lint. 
Buteo platypterus antillarwm according to Wells, deposits 
two eggs, buff color, spotted and blotched with reddish-brown. 
Clark, however, states that three eggs are usually laid and that 
he has had the opportunity of examining through the kindness 
of Dr. Dunbar B. B. Hughes, a number of eggs of this bird, 
in the collection of the late John Grant Wells, which were ob- 
tained in Grenada, W. I. Six sets were represented. The 
eggs were all bluish-white, unspotted. The natives at St. 
Vincent also informed him that this bird laid unspotted eggs. 
Buteo platypterus rivieri eggs are described by Verrill as dull 
white, heavily washed and blotched with rufous, umber and 
greyish-brown. 
DESCRIPTION OF A SERIES OF SETS—From over 100 sets never 
before described I have selected 15 sets showing, it is believed, 
every type of coloration known; the whole, added to those al- 
ready described under previous sub-heads, making a truly mag- 
nificent series, which, aside from their value as natural history 
specimens are a delight to the eye of the lover of the heau- 
tiful. 
Set I. Easton, Ct., May 30, 08, col. H. W. Beers, chestnut, 35 
ft. Ground color white with very slight gloss and just a sugges- 
tion of green, 1.98x1.58, quite lightly but regularly spotted and 
blotched with a stain-like light mars brown, 1.96x1.60, shell mark- 
ings so far beneath the surface or so light as to suggest a shadow 
rather than a describable tint. A few faint flecks of mars brown 
dispersed over surface, comparing with the typical Aeccipiter cooperi 
egg except in size, shape and texture: slightly granular at large 
end. 1.97x1.55, practically if not actually unspotted. T could de- 
tect a few faint flakes of undeterminable color besides the nest 
stains. Shell slightly granular at large end. The palest set IT ever 
examined. Ovate. Desc. by IF. L. B. 
Set II. Chester Co., Pa., May 12, ’SS, col, by Thomas H. Jackson, 
chestnut, 48 ft. Dull grayish-white ground. 1.94x1.62, almost 
plain, sprinkled with dots size of pinhead all over, running into 
fine lines at greater end similar to markings on an Oriole’s egg. 
