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 Aeluroedus viridis (LaMi.). 



CaQipbell, ly. p. 19G ; North, t.c- p. 70. 



Nest (111 open, soiuewliat deep structure of twigs and leaves, lined with fine 

 twigs and rootlets. The two or throe eggs are of a uniform rich cream-colour. 



Aeluroedus maciilosus Rams. (I'l. X., fig. I'.i). 



Campbell, l.i: p. 195 ; North, t.c. p. 7:i. 



Nest a bowl-shaped structure, composed of twigs and leaves, and lined with 

 fine twigs, leaves, etc. The eggs are two or three, according to North sometimes 

 even four. They are of an oval to elongate-oval shape, smooth, and slightly- 

 glossy, their colonr being a light cream to brownish cream-colour. 



The Tring Museum has an egg, together with nest and parent bird, brought 

 from (!airiis by Mr. Robinson. The egg measures 38-5 x 2S mm. 



We also have a clutch of two taken by Mr. A. S. Meek in North Queensland. 

 These eggs measure 42-6 x 23 and 41 x 27-8 mm. 



A very fine photograph of the nest with two eggs of this species is laven on 

 Plate XXIV. of Vol. VIII. of the Emu. 



Aeluroedus buccoides geislerorum Meyer (PI. X., fig. 14). 



Nelii-korn, Kat. Einmdmml . 2. AuH. p. 3J7 (I'JIO). 



Wo have received from Professor Forster, of Brotten, two eggs collected b\- 

 tiie late Carl "Wahues on the Sattelberg, in German New Guinea. They are of 

 a rich cream-colour, nearest to "cream-buff" in Ridg way's Xomeiid. Col. pi. v. 

 fig. 11. They measure 41'3x2()r) and 45x29 mm., this being rather large for 

 the bird. 



Nelirkorn (I.e.) describes an egg from tlio same source as ours as " pea-yollow," 

 and measuring 4i) x 2(1 mm. 



Scenopoeetes dentirostris (Rams.) (PI. X., fig. Is). 



North, Vicliiriaii Xaiuralid xKV. Nu. 10. pp. 165-8. pi. 8 (1909). 



North (Nests and fj(//js B. Austr. ami Tasmania i. p. 09) gave descriptions 

 of the playgrounds of this peculiar species, anil, in I'.ioit, described for the first 

 time the uests and eggs, which had been discovered by Mr. G. Sharp. Immediately 

 afterwards Mr. Sidney Wra. Jactkson found a number of clutches, and described 

 them and iiublished e.xcollont pliotographs in the Ema, vol. viii. pis. xxxii. and 

 xxxiv., 19(19. 



The Tring ]\Iuseum has received an egg from Mr Gregory M. Mathews, from 

 the collection of Mr. H. L. White, an enthusiastic egg-collector, who directed 

 Mr. Jackson to the jungles of North Queensland— so iuajipropriately called " scrub " 

 by the Australians— in order to collect these and other rare eggs. 



The egg in the Tring Museum is the second laying of a female of Sc. dentirostris, 

 which, according to the label, usually consists of one egg, while the first one 

 contains as a rule two eggs. Our egg was taken on November 3(.), 1909, by 

 Mr. E. D. Frizelle, a native who accompanied Mr. Jackson on his expedition. The 

 nest was placed in a vine-covered tree near Taiga on the bank of the Barron River, 

 not far from Atherton in North Queensland. 



The egg is of a real cream-colour, and modoratdy glossy. The surface of 



