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The eggs of the San Clemeate Eose- Finch are of a blunt oval form 

 and almost devoid of gloss. They are pale bluish-green, very 

 sparingly speckled at the broad end with black and lilac. Four 

 examples measure respectively: -IS by -57; "7 by '53; "7 

 by -53 ; -72 by -55. 



4. Santa Ciuz Island, Santa Barbara Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Islands, S. California, 8th May 

 (-ffi. S. Beck). 



Carpodacus ampins, Ridgway. 



(Plate X. fig. 22.) 



Carpodacus amplua, Bryant, Bull. Cat. Ac. Sci. no. 6. p. 293 (1887) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 424 (1888) ; Eidgw. Birds North 

 ^ Middle Amer. i p. 142 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 266 (1908). 



Six eggs of the Guadalupe Eose-Fincli are of a regular oval form 

 and moderately glossy. They are pale bluish-green, sometimes 

 plain, sometimes marked at the broad end with a few minute 

 blackish specks. They measure from -8 to -82 in length, and from 

 •6 to -62 in breadth. 



G. Guadalupe Island, Lower Call- A. \V. Anthony, Esq. [P.], 

 fornia, 24th March. 



Genus PROPASSEE, Hodgs. 



Propasser thura, Bonap. Sf Sehl. 



(Plate X. fig. 12.) 



Carpodacus thura, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 425 (1888) ; Dresser, 



Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 327 (1902). 

 Propaaser thiira, Oates, Fauna Brit. Iiid., Birds, ii. p. 213 (1890): id., 



ed. Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 152 (1890) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 266 (1908). 

 Carpodacus thura thura, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. i. p. 101 (1903). 



An egg of the White-browed Eose-Finch is of a greenish-blue 

 colour, marked with a few brown specks at the broad end. Ii is of 

 a regular oval shape, moderately glossy, and measures -89 by -61. 



1. Darjiling, Sikhim, 1st Aug. Hume Coll. 



Genus LOXIA, Linn. 



Loxia curvirostra, Linn. 



Loxia curvirostra, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Voy. tab. xxxvi. iig. 18, a~c 

 (1845-54) ; Baedeker, Eier Fur. Vog. tab. 20. fig. 8 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 212, pi. liv. figs, ii & iii (1866) ; 

 Wheelwright, A Spring Sf Summ. in Lapl. p. 801 (1871) ; Bresaer, 



