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° j" Q02 J Deane, Unusual Abundance of the Snowy Owl. 
with bright, well defined streaks and blotches of light brown on a 
greenish ground, the other with a more cloudy effect. Two other 
sets are almost exactly like some of the Savanna, thickly dotted 
with fine brown spots so as to hide the ground color; the fifth 
bears a striking resemblance to some eggs I have seen of the 
Bobolink, being clouded and washed with dull brown on a dirty 
greenish white ground, while in the sixth set, 3 eggs are almost 
exactly like the ordinary type of the Prairie Horned Lark, with 
the buffy tint of the latter replaced by greenish, and the ground 
color being sparingly dotted with light brown ; the other egg in 
this set resembling a light colored Savanna’s, thickly dotted with 
brown spots, so as to nearly hide the ground color. I had no 
time to take a description of the seventh nest, which was taken by 
Col. Gourdeau, Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries, to the 
Museum of his Department at Ottawa. 
Mr. James Boutilier, who seemed to know where nearly every 
pair nested annually, assured me that pure white eggs were seen 
in the nests occasionally, perhaps one egg in two years. 
Auk, XIX, July, 1902, pp. 
