988 ON THE NIDIFICATION OF CERTAIN AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



legged Spoonbill {Platihis flavipes), and measure as follows : — 

 Length (A) 2-93 x 2-1 inches; (B) 2-92 x 2-12 inches. These 

 eggs in shape, colour, and size, agree with those described by 

 Mr. A. Hume* (see Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds hy Allan 

 Hume, p. 608), the average of forty-five eggs measured by him 

 being 2-91 x 2-12 inches. So also do those of the Australian 

 specimens obtained in the neighbourhood of Ingham at the 

 mouth of the Herbert River, Queensland, in March, 1885, and 

 described in a joint paper contributed to the Royal Society of 

 Queensland by Messrs. W. T. White and Henry Tryon on the 

 6th of August, 1886 (See Proc. Royal Soc. Queensland, p: 139). 



* Dr. Ramsay informs me that a pair of these birds were found breeding 

 on the border of Lake Macquarie in 1860. During the last few years 

 young birds have been occasionally forwarded to the Australian Museum 

 and Botanic Gardens, Sydney, showing that the birds breed freely in New 

 South Wales. 



