410 ON THE NESTS AND EGGS OF CERTAIN AUSTRALIAN BIRDS, 

 SCYTHROPS NOV.E HOLLANDIiE, Lath. 



This bird is universally distributed over the whole Continent of 

 Australia, and one or two stragglers have even been found in 

 Tasmania. 



Dr. Hurst has kindly permitted me to describe an egg of this 

 species from his collection, which, he informs me, was taken from 

 the oviduct of a bird shot at Kempsey on the Macleay River, 

 during: the first week in November, 1884. and which he exhibited 

 at a Meeting of this Society in the same month. 



Ground colour dull white, with faint washed-out pinkish spots 

 and minute dots, also some of a light yellowish-brown tinge ; 

 appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell at the apex of 

 the thick end are others of a light purplish-brown, becoming 

 confluent, and forming a very indistinct patch, intermingled with 

 some of a brownish shade. All the markings are very ill-defined, 

 and the egg closely resembles a very large and washed-out speci- 

 men of the egg of Grcdlina australis. Length, TS x 1-05 inch. 



Megaloprepia assimilis, Gould. 



The Allied Fruit Pigeon is universally dispersed over the Cape 

 York Peninsula, and as far south as the neighbourhood of 

 Rockingham Bay. 



A nest of this species found at Cape York by Mr. George 

 Masters, on the 17th of September, 1875, from which the bird 

 was flushed, and procured, was simply a few dried sticks placed 

 cross-wise on a horizontal branch of a tree about eight feet from 

 the ground ; it contained two eggs, perfectly white, rather elong- 

 ated in form and pointed at the smaller ends, in a very advanced 

 state of incubation. An average specimen measures 1-4 inch in 

 length, by 0*95 inch in breadth. {From the Macleyan Mus. Coll.). 



Pezoporus formosus. Lath. 

 Dr. Ramsay informs me this bird used to breed freely in the 

 neighbourhood of Appin in the long tussocky grass, during the 

 months of September, October, and November, and that the 

 young birds aff'orded excellent sport about the end of January. 



