312 TANAGEID^. 



Brewer records eg^s with the grouad-oolour of " a liglit shade of 

 emoruld-green, marked with various shades of brown, more or less 

 tinged with lilac, purple and slate." 



3. Near Kansas Oitv, Missouri, 18th ,W. RadcliflTe Saunders, Esq. 



June. " [P.]. 



Pyranga rubra (Linn.). 

 (Plate XIII. fig. 12.) 



Pyranga rubra, Bairrl, Brewer Sr Ridgw. N. Ame.r. Birds, i. p. 435 

 (1874) ; Salo. <^ Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves,i. p. 287 (1883) f 

 Sd. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 188 (188B) ; Nehrh. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 96 (1899), p. 337 (1910) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 386 (1909). 



liranga erythromelas, Ridgw. Birds North S; Middle Amer, ii. p. 88 

 (1902). 



The eggs of the Scarlet Tanager are of a broad oval shape and 

 exhibit a smnll amount of gloss. They are pale greenish- blue, 

 thickly spotted and blotched with pale reddish-brown and lilac- 

 grey. The markings are more numerous as well as larger at the 

 broad end, and in one example form a large ill-defined cap. 

 They measure from "85 to '96 in length, and from '68 to "72 in 

 breadth. 



2. North America [Henshaw Cull.). Salvin-Godmam Coll. 



1. I'enusylvania (C. /. Pennock). Princeton Ui.iversitv, N.J. 



[E.]. 

 1. New Jersey (D. G. Elliot : Tris- Crowley Bequest. 

 tram Cull.). 



3. Eastford, Counecticut, 6tli June Crowley Bequest. 



(Rev. J. Jones). 



4. Hyde Park, Illinois, 2nd June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Pyranga bidentata, Swains. 



Pyranga bidentata, Sa!v. ^ Godm. Biol. Cenir.-Amer., Ates, i. p. 296 

 (1883); Sd. Cut. Birds B. M. xi. p. 190 (1886) [part.J ; Sliarpe, 

 Iland-l. V. p. 386 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 327 (1910). 



Pu'anga bidentata bidentata, Ridgio. Birds North & Middle Amer. ii. 

 p. 95 (1902). 



An egg of Swainson's Tanager is of a regular oval shape and 

 slightly glossy. The ground-colour is pale greenish-blue sparingly 

 marked, almost entirely at the larger end, with small spots o'f 

 purplish-black and lilac-grey. It measures -97 by -72. 



1. Escasu, Costa Rica, 19th May. Mr. C. F. Underwood [C.]. 



