1156 NOTES ON THE BOWER BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, 



Eggs in my own collection from Gippsland vary slightly from 

 those in the Dobroyde collection from the Illawarra district, 

 being more swollen and heavily marked. The latter were 

 described in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 

 amongst those of other birds. (P. Z S., 1875, p. 112). 



The Gippsland specimens appear much stronger in the texture 

 of the shell than any of the New South Wales examples I have 

 met with, and are of a rich cream colour, with irregular dashes 

 and markings of a dark umber, some of them being superimposed, 

 and a few are of a pale lilac tint ; the remainder of the surface is 

 thickly covered with minute dots and freckles of light brown, 

 together with several hair lines of the same colour, particularly 

 towards the larger end. Length, 1*71 inch x 1*1 inch. 



Ailurozdus crassirostris, Payk. 



A. Smithii, Vig. & Horsf.; Gould, Handbook, Yol. I. p. 446. 



Hah. — East coast of Australia, extending from Moreton Bay in 

 the north, to Cape Howe in the south. This species is common 

 on all the ranges near the coast in New South Wales, but up to 

 the present the nest is known only from one taken by Mr. Ralph 

 Hargrave at Stanwell, near Wollongong, in the Illawarra District. 



Both nest and eggs were described by Dr. Ramsay in the 

 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1878, 

 Yol. II. p. 107. 



To-day 1 had the pleasure of examining this set of ftggs, and the 

 most striking characteristic about them is their unusually small 

 dimensions, for the size of the bird. 



Although approaching closely to P. violaceus in its habits, neither 

 this nor the following species is as yet known to make a bower. 



Ailurgedus maculosus, Ramsay. 



This is a smaller species than the preceding, and, as far as is 

 known at present, is confined to the coast ranges between the 



