Burns—On BroAd-wINGED HAWK. 263 
1.93x1.61, very similar though much more heavily marked at 
greater end. 1.95x1.65, quite heavily marked around small end 
with olive brown blotches and dottings. 
Set. III. Waston, Ct., May 18, ’08, col. H. W. Beers, chestnut, 
30 ft. Almost dead white. 2.04x1.61, smaller end and almost to 
the middle scratched with countless microscopical hair lines of 
pale vandyke brown with a few spots and scrawls of a heavier 
ealibre over two-thirds of this area. 1.97x1.57, almost entire sur- 
face clouded with longitudinal shell markings of smoke and drab, 
heaviest in a broad ring about one end, possibly the larger, though 
the egg appears an almost perfect oval. There are three or four 
tiny specks of walnut or pale yandyke brown. Oval. Desc. by 
10) Ibe 183, 
Set IV. Trumbull, Ct., May 19, ’99, col. H. W. Beers, chestnut, 
25 ft. Dead white. 1.90x1.44, palest possible shell markings of 
drab gray, most numerous about larger end, with scattered stip- 
pling of walnut at base, thicker and paler at apex. 1.79x1.39, shell 
markings of ecru drab and drab, the latter confluent in broad 
band around smaller end principally, overlaid on surface of minor 
third and a few scattered to base, with fine spots and blotches of 
burnt umber. This is a most remarkable looking egg, one which 
would attract attention in any collection. Ovate. Dese. by F. L. 
Burns. 
Set V. Berwyn, Pa., June 5, ’95, col. F. L. Burns, chestnut, 47° 
ft. White ground. 1.76x1.45, wood brown appearance, heaviest at 
larger end, stippled or flea-bitten look more often present in the 
eges of the Sparrow Hawk. Short ovate. 1.83x1.51, surface stain 
in large blotches confluent on one-half of the smaller end, extend- 
ing on this side out to the center, of a very pale mars brown, al- 
most faun. <A few shadow-like shell stains of no definite color. 
Ovate. 
Set VI. Calais, Maine, May 17, ’94, col. George A. Boardman. 
Dull white. 1.92x1.52, evenly sprinkled all over with fine dots, 
small spots and irregular blotches of pale tawny olive and raw 
sienna. 1.99x1.50, more sparingly splashed with irregular small 
blotehes and scattering dots of wood brown and raw umber. 2.01x 
1.51, irregularly splashed with blotches, chiefly about the smaller 
end, with wood brown and prout’s brown. All of these colors have 
probably faded. Oval to elliptical oval. Desc. by A. C. Bent. 
Set VIT. Garver, Mass., May 22, ’01, col. A. C. Bent, white pine, 
40 ft. Dull white. 1.93x1.53, partially clouded with lavender 
gray, heavily blotched, particularly about the small end, with vin- 
aceous and heliotrope purple, underlaid with irregularly broken 
blotches or clusters of confluent small dots of cinnamon rufous. 
