( 491 ) 

 Phonygammus g'ouldi (Gray). 



Campl)ell, p. 78. pi. (! ; North, p 32. pi. B. iii. (ig. 0. 



Eggs of this Australian form, juilgiiig from figures and descriptions, agree 

 perfectly witli those of P. jamesi. 



Lycocorax obiensis Bernst. 



Nehrkorn, Kut. Kirrsaninil. 2. Aufl. p. 350(1010). 



Nehrlcoru ilescribes au egg from Obi as pink with a labyrinth of black 

 hair-lines, as they are frequently seen iu eggs of Einheriza citrlnella, and gives 

 the measurements as 41 x 29 mm. 



It will be seen from the above that we are fairly well aC'|u;iinted with the 

 eggs of the genera Ptilonorln/Hchas, Aeluroeilu^, Sceiiopoeeti-s, Cldami/tlera, 

 S'.ricidxs, Prioiwthva, Plilorhis, Seleti'udi'.s, Paratlisea, Manucodia, and Phony- 

 giimina^, and that some few others are also known from single eggs or clutches 

 {Li/cocora.r, A.-i/nt/iia, Lojdwrina, Parot/'a, Ainblyornis). On the other hand, we 

 know nothing about the eggs of the genera Xanthomelus, Lohoimrtidiset, 

 Ciieinojildliis, TjOria, Paradigalla, Macgregoria, LohorJiainphtis, Pteridophora, 

 Lampi'othorax, Janthothovax, FalcineUus, Scklegelia, Diphi/llodes, Cicinnurus, 

 Semioptera, and Drepanornis. With regard to Drepanornis it must be said that 

 Mr. Rothschild, Bull. B. 0. Club xxi. p. 38, mentioned that he possessed two 

 broken eggs of Drepanornis ; but we have come to doubt that they are correctly 

 identified, as they are utterly unlike each other, and there is no evidence to prove 

 their correctness. We have therefore thought it best to refrain from giving a 

 description. 



A wide and interesting field is still open in New Guinea and the Papuan 

 Islands generally for the discovery of unknown eggs of Paradiseidar. It is 

 especially astonishing that the eggs of Cicinnurus, which is a common bird in 

 many places, are still unknown. 



