ICTEE0S. EUPHAGUS. 395 



Icterus leucopteryx ( Wagl). 



(Plate XYII. figs. 18 & 21.) 



Icterus leucopteryx, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 226 (1847); Sol. Cat. 

 Birds B. M. xi. p. 387 (1886) ; Ridgw. Birds North Sf Middle 

 Amer. ii. p. 303 (ly02) ; Sharpe, Handel, v. p. 505 (1909). 



Eggs of the Jamaican Hangnest or Banana-Bird are of a rather 

 pointed oTal shape, and almost or quite devoid of gloss. The 

 ground is pale buffy-white or brow nish- white with a tracery of 

 fane lines and blotched lines round the cap, one specimen being 

 especially handsomely and boldly marked. Three eggs measure 

 respectively : -98 by -68 ; -96 by -66 ; and -93 by -66. 



1 . Jamaica. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Port Henderson, Jamaica, 27th Crowley Bequest, 



June (C B. Taylor). 



Genus ETIPHAGUS, Cassin. 



Euphagus carolinus (P. L. S. Milll.). 



Scolecophagus ferrugineus, Baird, Brewer ^ Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. 



p. 203 (1874) ; Banks, Auk, ii. p. 106 (1885) ; Sel. Cat. Birds B. M. 



xi. p. 390 (1886) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 103 (1899). 

 Scolecophagus carolinus, MacFarlane, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 440 



(1891) ; Bendire, Life-Hiat. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 489, pi. Tii. 



figs. 14^16 (1895) ; Ridgw. Birds North Sr Middle Amer. ii. p. 246 



(1902). 

 Euphagus carolinus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 506 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eier- 



samml. p. 346 (1910). 



The eggs of the Eusty Grackle are of two types. In one, they 

 are of an ordinary, but somewhat pointed, oval shape, moderately 

 glossy, and pale bluish-green, blotched, smeared and mottled with 

 pale brown or pinkish-brown and lavender-grey. In the second 

 type, the eggs are of a blunt oval shape, almost elliptical, and 

 rather highly glossy. They are greenish-grey, very densely mottled 

 all over with dark brown and dull lavender, little of the ground 

 being visible. Eight examples measure from 1 to I'l in length, 

 and from -72 to '77 in breadth. 



1. [North-West America] (J. J. Au- Crowley Bequest. 



dubon : Tristram Coll.). 

 3. North-West A merica. Gould Coll. 



]. Anderson River, Arctic America, Salvin-Godinam Coll. 



June (2J. MacFarlane: Hen- 



shaw Coll.). 

 3. Anderson River, June {R. MacF. : Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Smiths. Inst.). 



