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2 eggs. Pale bluish-green, with yellowish tinge. The normal specimen 
has bold blotches of greyish-brown, and small spots of deep shades of 
brown, chiefly at, large end. The abnormal egg is almost round and 
marked with same colors, which are thickest in clusters on each end. 
I. 56 x 1.22, 1.43 x 1.38. (Described by J. Warren Jacobs.) 
Set IX. — April 14, 1873. Waynesburgh, Green Co., Pa. Collected by 
J. Warren Jacobs. 5 eggs. Light bluish-green. Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Very 
heavily marked, but chiefly at larger ends, with yellowish-drab, brown 
and slate. No. 4. Same colors moderately distributed. No. 5. Almost 
devoid of markings. 1.95X 1.15, 1.91 x 1.18, 1.86 x 1.19, 1.66 x 1.15, 
1.78 x 1.19. 
Set X. — April 29, 1893. Amherst, Mass. Collected by I. C. Green. 
5 eggs. Ground color very light green in two eggs, darker in the remain¬ 
der. Spotted and blotched with olive, brown and lilac, very thickly. 
1.63x1.09, 1.50x1.07, 1.58x1.12, 1.59x1.14, 1.52x1.11. 
Set XI.— April 30, 1890. Tredyffim Twp., Chester Co., Pa. Collected 
by F. L, Burns. 4 eggs. Eggs very small. Light nile-blue, almost 
light glaucous-green, with small shell markings of drab, smoke and olive- 
grey. Spotted and blotched with olive-green, olive-brown, and a few 
specks of clove-brown chiefly at larger ends. Ovate. /.jjx/.og, 1.52 
\ /./o, /.jj.v 1.07, 1.47 x j.oS. 
Set XII.—April 10, 1889. Grinnell, la. Collected by Lynds Jones. 4 
eggs. Light nile-blue. No. 1. Very heavily and uniformly overlaid 
with bold markings of wood- and hair-brown, the latter predominating. 
No. 2. Less heavily overlaid with same colors in smaller pattern, blotches 
largely confined to larger end ; also two large blotches of black at larger 
end, and numerous small ones evenly distributed over the entire surface. 
No. 3. Markings very sparce and vague, chiefly of wood-brown, here 
and there assuming a streaky appearance. No. 4. Markings very sparse 
and almost entirely streaky, of a pale wood-brown, a blotch of hair-brown 
at the extremity of a streak here and there, looking as if a drop of color 
had dried on after staining the shell in the streak. 1.71x1.16, 1.70 x1.17, 
r.54 x 1.18, 1.42 x 1.10. 
Set XIII.- April 18, 1893. Grinnell, Iowa. Collected by Lynds Jones. 
6 eggs. Type specimen : very light nile-blue, thickly overlaid with small 
blotches of wood-brown, and lavender shell markings scarcely discerni¬ 
ble ; the whole overlaid with large, well-defined blotches of hair-brown ; 
all markings evenly distributed, giving the egg a greenish-brown appear¬ 
ance. Two other eggs heavily blotched with same colors. Two other 
eggs have relatively but few of the inner blotches and shell markings, 
hair-brown being the principal color. Last egg sparsely marked, a few 
