ETJETHIA, 165 



measure from -65 to -71 in length, and from -49 to -51 in 

 breadth. 



1. JIa.va.tia, Cuba. (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



2- Cuba. Crowley Bequest. 



5. Jamaica. Salvin-Grodman Coll. 



6. Jamaica. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Euethia pusilla (Swains.). 

 (Plate IX. fig. 16.) 



Phonipara pusilla, Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 507 ; Salv. ^ Godm. 

 Biol. Centr.-Atner., Aves, i. x>. 359 (1885) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M, 

 xii. p. 147 (1888) ; Nehrk. Kat. JEiersamml. p. 108 (1899). 



Euethia olivacea pusiUa, Ridgw. Birds North & Middle Amer. i. p. 534 

 (1901). 



Euethia pusilla, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 316 (1908). 



The eggs of the Mexican Grassquit are inseparable from those 

 of li. olivacea and E. marchi. Foui examples measure respectively ; 

 •7 by -52; -67 by -5; -67 by 5 ; -65 by -5. 



1. Mexico (Gould Coll.: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 

 1. IrazLi, Costa Rica, 30th July. C. P. Underwood [C.]. 



•2. MedelUn, Antioquia, U.S. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Colombia (T. K. Salmon). 



Euethia omissa, Jard. 



Phouipara bicolor, A. ^ E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 147, pi. xii. fig. 2 ; 



Lav.vence, Froc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 58 (1878) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 



B. M. xii. p. 149 (1888) [part.]. 

 Euethia bicolor, Verrill, Trans. Conn. Ac. Set. viii. p. 338 (1892). 

 Euethia bicolor omissa, Ridgw. Birds North 8f Middle Amer. i. p. 538 



(1901). 

 Euethia omissa, Sharpe, Sand-l. v. p. 216 (1908). 



Twelve eggs of the Carib Grassquit are of a regular oval shape 

 and are almost devoid of gloss. Nine of them resemble those of 

 E. olivacea, but the remaining thriee have the entire shell finely 

 mottled and clouded with dull brick-red, the markings being densest 

 towards the larger end. They measure from -65 to -69 in length, 

 and from -47 to -52 in breadth. 



3. St. Croix, West Indies (A. 8f E. Salvin-Godman Coll, 



Newton). 

 3. St. Croix (A. ^ E. N.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. St. Croix (A. 8f E. N. : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Cott.). 

 3. St. Vincent, W. I. (Mrs. H. H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Smith). 



