(487 ) 

 Amblyornis inornatus (Sdil.). 



Nelirliorn, KnI. Kifrmmnd . 2. Aufl. p. 350. 



Nchrkoni doscribos an egg from " British New (Tiiinea"' as uniform yellowish 

 white, and measuring 40 x 20 mm. Unfortnnatel_v, as usual, no collector's name or 

 authority is stated, so that this information will require confirmation. 



Sericulus chrysocephalus I/cwin. 



Campbell, p. 208, .also plate ; Nortli, p. CO. 



The nest is ratlier flat, small for tlie bird, and consists of dry branches and 

 twigs, lined witii finer twigs and wire-like stems. Eggs like eggs of the genus 

 ChlamijJeru. 



Prionodura newtoniana de Vis (PI. X., fig. 21). 



Norlb, Virtnriaii Xuliii-alhl xxv. (1909). pp. 162-u. pi. 7 ; Jackson, Emu viii. (1909). pi. .\xviii. 



The nest photogr.ajihed in the Emu is a shallow cnp of dry twigs, ontside 

 ornamented with leaves. Eggs light cream-colour. We have received, through 

 Mr. Slafhews, an egg taken on November 30, 1908, by Mr. George Sharp, on the 

 Bellenden Ker Range, North Queensland. The nest was placed in the hollow of 

 a tree growing in dense scrnb. The single egg was already incubated. It measures 

 34-5 X 24-r ram. 



[CnemopMlus macgregori de Vis. 



A nest and egg said to belong to this bird were received in 1898 from 

 Mr. A. S. Anthony. They were described by Mr. Rothschild in the Hull. B. 0. Gluh, 

 vol. viii. p. xxvi. The e^^, however, is so utterly unlike any eggs of Paradiseidae 

 hitherto known, exactly looking like an Oriole's egg, and tlie thick, soft nest of 

 moss differs so much from all nests of Paracliseidm' which we know, that we do 

 not now believe this nest and egg are correctly identified.] 



Parotia sexpennis lawesi Rams. (Pi. X., fig. 20). 



Mr. A. S. Antliony sent us the nest and egg of this species, found in tlie 

 Owen Stanley Mountains, about (iOOO feet high. The nest is built entirely of the 

 wire-like stems of some climbing plant, and lined onl}' with finer stalks of the same 

 kind and some fine rootlets. Unless pressed out of shape the structure is very flat. 

 The single egg is of a vinaceous red, witlrdark rnfons, sometimes almost l)iack 

 patches and sjiots, and a few underlying greyish spots. JMeasnrcments : 

 33 X 24 mm. 



Very amusing is the vernacular name of this form among the feather-hunters 

 and collectors in New Guinea. Tiie bird became known by its specific title ; but 

 the Latin "sexpennis''' having no meaning for a Papuan n'ative, half-caste, and 

 probably most of the white colonists oat there as well, it became " sixpenny," 

 or as Anthony spells it "sixpenaey," a word which apparently has a great meaning 

 for natives. 



Lophorina superba minor Rams. (PI. X., figs. 22, 23). 



Nest and eggs were taken by A. S. Anthony, 5000 feet high in the Owen 

 Stanley Mountains. The nest consists of dry and partially decayed leaves, 

 dry twigs_ and rootlets. The two eggs sent ditler from each other. The one is 

 brownish buft", longitudinally splashed and marked with pale brownish grey, and 



