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 Paradisea raggiana Scl. (PI. x., fig. 3). 



Ramsay, Pmc. Linn. Soc. A', .s'. \Vul,s viii. p. I'l; (IKHrS. — This is the first description of an egg of 

 a true Parailhen). 



Nest <aii(l ec;gs were received from A. S. Anthony, wlio collected theiu at an 

 elevation of -UOil feet in the Owen Stanley Mountains. The nest is like that of 

 other species of Paradisea. The eggs are of a beautiful pinldsh cream-colour, 

 the markings of a very clear reddish brown with a few underlying violet-grcy 

 streaks. Measurements : 38-2 x 24-:i and ST-."") x 'i-y~ mm. 



Paradisea rudolphi (Finsch) (PI. X., fig. 4). 



An egg was taken at an elevation of uOUO feet by A. S. Anthony. It is 

 very elongated, and resembles the specimens of the egg of P. rcuj(jiana except 

 that the ground-colour is not so pink, more of a rich cream-enlour. It measures 

 38-5 X 24 mm. 



Paradisea minor minor Shaw (PI. X., tig. (i). 



Nest and eggs were taken by A. E. Pratt at Hambitawuria in Western Dut(di 

 New Guinea, at an elevation of 1500 feet. The well-preserved nest is built of 

 rufous brown twigs, inside of fine black wire-like fibres or rootlets, and the outside 

 is jiartially covered witli dead leaves. The cup measures about 12 — 13 cm. across, 

 and is 8 cm. deep. The egg is cream-colour, and marked with the characteristically 

 paradiseine long streaks of brown and rufous brown, from the thick end downwards, 

 and shorter deeper lying grey ones. It measures 35'2 x 20-8 mm. 



We also received from the late Heinrich Kiihn the remains of a topical 

 Paradise-bird's nest and an egg from Etna Bay, Dutch New Guinea. The egg 

 is paler and more freipiently marked than the one taken by A. E. Pratt, but it 

 agrees entirely with an egg of Paradisea minor fnsclii in the Tring Museum. 

 It measures 3G-1 x 2()-4 mm. There can, in my opinion, be no doubt that it is 

 the egg of /'. minor minor, which were common and in full breeding plumage 

 during the visit of Heinrich Kiihu to Etna Bay. 



Paradisea minor finschi A. B. Meyer (PI. X., fig. 1). 



Two eggs were collected by the late Carl Wahnes in Kaiser Wiiiielm's L.-ind. 

 They are moderately glossy, of a rich cream-colour, and heavily marked with 

 longitudinal patches of brown, and a few purplish grey ones. Measurements : 

 36 X 20 and 35 x 26 mm. 



The nest consists of twigs and dry leaves, and is lined with fine wire-like 

 fibres. 



Paradisea augustaevictoriae Cab. (PI. X., fig. 1). 



A. B. Meyer, Ihin 190;i. p. 481. pi. xiii. ; Nehrkorn, KiU. Eiermniml. 2. Aufl. p. :i6C) (IBIO). 



Two eggs collected by the late Carl Wahnes on the Sattelberg in German 

 New Guinea are of a rich pinkish cream-colour, with long rufous brown and deeper 

 lying reddish grey stripes. They measure 35 x 24-() and 34-o x 24'0 mm. They 

 agree very well with the eggs figured in the fbis, except that, if the figures are 

 quite exactly (toloured, in our eggs the markings are not (piite so reddish. 



The nest is exactiv like that of /'. minor /insc/ii. 



