BY A. F. BASSET HULL. 693 



875(M). 79.STREPERA GRACULINA White. 



Pied Crow-Shrike; Magpie(L.H.I.). 



Strepera crissalis, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. iii, p. 58, pL ii.; 

 Ramsay, p. 37; Etheridge, ' Lord Howe Island,' p. 10. 



Hab. — Lord Howe Island. (Queensland, New South Wales, 

 Victoria). 



The Pied Crow-Shrike is found only on Lord Howe Island. It 

 is very plentiful in the sheltered palm-glades in the vicinity of 

 settlement, where its musical whistling call rings out with an 

 almost human intonation. I was not fortunate enough to procure 

 either nest or eggs, but was informed that it constructs a loose 

 platform of twigs and small sticks on the thin outer branches of 

 large trees, generally selecting one growing out from one of the 

 "faces " or cliffs of Mount Lidgbird. Its breeding-haunts are in 

 the hills, and the season is from July to September. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES L.-LIV. 

 Plate 1. 

 Eggs of Sterna fuliginosa Gmelin, showing variations in markings and 

 dimensions; nat. size. 



Plate li. 

 Eggs (nat. size) of 



l.Gygis alba Sparrm. [upper row]. 



I.Micranousleucocapilliis Go\x\di\\o\fev xo^; first and second from the 



left]. 

 S.Procelsteriia cinerea Gould[lower row; third and fourth from the left], 



Plate Iii. 

 Eggs (nat. size) of 



l.Anous stolidm Linn. [upper row]. 

 2.Fhaethon erubescens Rothsch. [lower row]. 



Plate liii. 

 Fig. L — Egg of Gygis alba vSparrm., in position as laid in a knot-hole in the 



horizontal branch of Lagunaria Fatersoni. 

 Fig. 2. — Nest and eggs of Rhipidura cervvia Kamsay; one-half nat. size. 



Plate liv. 

 Nest and eggs of Pachycephala contempta Hartert; one-half nat. size. 

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