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Genus ElSIBEBNAaHA, Less. 



Embernagra platensis {Gmel.). 



Embemagra platensia, Scl. ^ Suds. Argent. Orn. i. p. 62 (1888) ; Sharps, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 758 (1888) ; Dalgleish, Proc. B. Phys. Soc. 

 JEdinb. x. p. 77 (1888-90) ; Solland, Ibis, 1892, p. 197 ; 1895, p. 215 ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 118 (1899) ; Ihering, Bev. Mus. Paulista, 

 iv. p. 215 (1900) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 323 (1909). 



Eggs of the Ked-billed Ground-Finch are of a regular oval form 

 and very glossy. They are white or pinkish-white, marked, but 

 almost entirely at the broad end, in various ways. Some eggs are 

 spotted with rich chocolate-brown and underlying lavender ; others 

 are smeared with pale brownish-pink and lilac, and blotched with 

 very rich chestnut-brown; others again are very beautifully marked 

 with an intricate tracery of lines, intermingled with spots and 

 streaks, of extremely rich purplish- or chocolate-brown. With the 

 exception of the broad end, the surface of the egg is unmarked, or 

 very sparingly speckled with rufous. Eggs measure from '9 to I'Oi! 

 in length, and from "68 to -75 in breadth. 



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Genus EMBEEIZOIDES, Temm. 



Emberizoides macrurus (Gmel.). 



Emberizoides macrurus, Scl. 8f Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 607 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. xii. p. 768 (1888) ; id. Hand-l. v. p. 324 (1909). 



The eggs of the Long-tailed Finch are of a pointed oval shape, 

 rather glossy, and white, very sparingly and delicately speckled 

 with black. A few of the markings are larger than the others, 

 but none are larger than the head of an ordinary pin. In two 

 specimens the specks are distributed over the entire shell ; in 

 another they are chiefly collected about the larger end, where there 

 are also a few hair-lines. Three examples measure respectively : 

 •92 by -65 ; -9 by -68 ; -91 by -66. 



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