66 MNIOIILTm*. 



An egg of the Pine-Warbler resembles many of the eggs of D.tsstiva. 

 It measures •? by '5. 

 1. North America {Smiths. Inst.). Crowley Bequest. 



Dendroeca discolor, VieiU. 



Dendroica discolor, Baird, Brewer Sr Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 276 



(1874), 

 Dendroeca discolor, Coues, Bii-ds N.-West, -p. 6S (1874); Sah. Sr Godm. 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 142 (1881) ; Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. 



X. p. 307 (1885) ; Coaes, Auk, 1888, p. 405 ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 



p. 89 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 110 (1906). 



The eggs of the Prairie-Warbler vary from a narrow to a broad 

 oval form and are slightly glossy. They are white, speckled, spotted 

 and sometimes blotched, chiefly at the broad end, with reddish- 

 brown, purplish-brown, and lavender or lilac. They measure from 

 •62 to -67 in length, and from -46 to -51 iu breadth. 



1. North America (iSmiifAs. /resi.). ' Salvin-Godman Ooll. 

 4. North America {Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Con- W. Eadcliife Saunders, Esq. 



necticut, Sth July (J. N. [P.] 



Clark). 



Genus OPOROENIS, Baird. 



Oporomis formosa ( WUs.). 

 (Plate IV. fig. 1.) 



Oporomis formosus, Cones, Birds N.- West, p. 73 (1874) ; Baird, Brewer 



§■ Bidgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 293 (1874). 

 Oporornis formosa, Salv. Sf Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 148 



(1881) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 348 (1885) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 89 (1899) ; Sharpe, Sand-l. v. p. Ill (1906). 



The eggs of the Kentucky Warbler are of a pointed, broad oval 

 form and moderately glossy. They are white, speckled and spotted, 

 rather densely at the broad end, with reddish-brown and lavender. 

 A few larger markings, of the nature of blotches, are scattered over 

 the shell, here and there. Specimens measure from -7 to -8 in 

 length, and from -6 to "62 in breadth. 



2. North America. Crowley Bequest. 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Washington, D.O., 15lh June (Se?2- Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 shaw Coll.). 



1. Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Princeton University, N.J. 



2. Green Co., Pennsylvania, 28th May W. Iladcliffe Saunders. Esq 



{J. W. Jacobs). rp.]. ^ 



