(3 AVIFAUNA OF LATSAN. 



found four in a nest; I am therefore unable to say what the usual number of eggs might 

 be. They begin breeding early in May." 



The nest Mr. Palmer sent me is an artless and somewhat flat structure of grass and 

 small tar** lined more softly inside; it measures about 2* inches across inside. The eggs 

 are white with very little gloss, marked with russet-brown blotches and narrow spots of the 

 same colour and larger and smaller underlying blotches of a light bluish grey ; the spots are 

 more numerous at the thick end. The eggs arc short, oval, and measure 077 by 0'03 inch. 



One egg out of another nest is more thickly spotted and is much larger, measuring 

 0-88 by 65 inch, and I think that it belongs to the somewhat larger T. Jlnvissima. 



Obs.-One of my specimens of T. cantons, Wils., is in an entirely abraded plumage, and 

 others are almost similar, showing that they cannot be young birds. I expressly state this, 

 as it has been surmised that T.flavissima might be only the full-plumaged bird of T. cantons, 

 which certainly is not the case. 



