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oval shape and are slightly glossy. Some are greenish-white, 

 mottled and smeared with pale brown and marked with a few spots 

 of a darker brown. Others are greyish-white; or greenish-white, 

 smeared and blotched with dull brick-red and pale underlying 

 lavender-grey or very finely marked all over with the same colour. 

 I'hey measure from "7 to -83 in lengtti, and from -55 to -6 in 

 breadth. 



North America {H. Buckley: Crowley Bequest 



Trutram Coll.). 

 North America (Smiths. Inst.). 

 North America (Henshaw Coll.). 

 Princeton, New Jersey, 24th May 



( TV. E. D. Scott). 

 Princeton, 28th May {W. -B. 



D. S.). 

 Princeton, 6th June ( W. E. D. S.). 



4. Pennsylvania (T. M. Brewer). 

 4. Taunton, Massachusetts, Snd June. 



3. Taunton, 2nd June. 



Salvin-Godinan Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Princeton University, N.J. 



LE.]. 

 Princeton University, N.J. 



[E.]. 

 Princeton University, N.J. 



[E.]. 



H. E. Dresser, Esq. [E.]. 

 W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq, 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Genus PASSERELLA, Swains. 

 Passerella iliaca (Merrem). 



Fringilla iliaca, Tftien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. p. 394, tab. xxxiv. fig. 3, a-c 



(1845-54). 

 Passerella iliaca, Ross, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1862, p. 282 ; id. Canad. Nat. 



vii. p. 147 (1862) ; Baird, Brewer Sf Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. 



p. 50 (1874); Coues, Birds N.-West, p. 160 (1874;; Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds B. M. lii. p. 716 (1888) ; MacFarlane, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



xiv. p. 443 (1891) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 117 (1899) ; Sharpe, 



Sandrl. V. p. 314 (1909). 

 Passerella iliaca iliaca, Ridgw. Birds North ^ Middle Amer. i. p. 886 



(1901). 



The eggs of the Fox-coloured Sparrow vary from a blunt oval 

 to a perfectly elliptical shape and are moderately glossy. They 

 are very pale green, densely mottled, blotched and smeared with 

 bright brick-red. Here and there, traces of underlying grey may 

 be detected. The surface-markings are confluent over the broad 

 end and frequently over the whole surface of the egg. Specimens 

 measure from "9 to "96 in length, and from -62 to •/ in breadth. 



2. 100 miles N. of the Porcupine R., 

 Alaska (.7. Lockhart : Tris- 

 tram Coll.). 



2, Peel River, British N. America. 

 (J. L. : /Smiths. Inst.). 



5. Fort Simpson, British N America. 



2. Fort Simpson. 



3. Fort Simpson. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.]. 

 B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.". 

 B. R.Ross, Esq. [P.'. 



