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irregular of a dark purplisli-brown and sprinkled sparingly over 

 the surface. 



17. Mexura victorij-, GoidJ. PL 4, figs. 1 to 4. 



For a description of tlie Q^^g of Menura superha and notes of 

 the species see P.Z.S., 1868, p. 19 ; [PI. 5, fig. 3.] 



The eggs of all three species bear a marked resemblance to 

 one another, although they vary considerably inter se. 



Menura ciciorics, var. A.— Grrouud colour olive brown, of a 

 rather light tint, with spots of blackish brown and purple brown, 

 some confluent, others solitary, rather crowded on the top of the 

 thicker end, there are also a few obsolete spots of a lilac tint ; 

 length 2-87 x IQo. (Pig. 1.) 



Yar. B, — Ground colour purplish stone-colour, or dark 

 brownish-purple, with obsolete spots and irregular markings of a 

 blackish tint, crowded towards the thick end, and forming a dark 

 patch at the top where they overlap, some of the spots on the 

 body of the egg, elongate and interspersed among freckles of ihe 

 same blackish tint ; length 2-11 x 173. (Fig. 2.) 



IS. CLTilACTERIS LEUCOPK.EA, Lath. 



This species of Cliinacteris, nests like all of the other members 

 of the genus, in hollow limbs of trees often at a great distance 

 from the ground, but occasionally low enough to admit of being 

 taken. On two occasions only have I seen the egg of this bird 

 during the last twenty years, once in 1860 when a single specimen 

 was obtained after considerable difficulty by my friend Ealph 

 Hargrave Esq., at Macquarie fields ; and more recently a pair 

 in the Collection of Dr. Lucas, taken July 10th, 1880, have been 

 brought under my notice. The only nest, is a small bed of dry 

 grass placed on the decayed wood found in the hollow trunks or 

 boughs of the aged Eucalypti, the eggs are two to three in num- 

 ber, Avhite, with almost round reddish spots, sprinkled over the 



