28 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ZOOLOGY OF NEW GUINEA, 



Collyriocincla rufigaster. — Gould. 



The eggs, two in number, like those of the same species from 

 Cape York ; white, thickly sprinkled over the surface with dull 

 slate-coloured and grey freckles, closer towards the thick end, 

 where they form a zone or a crowded patch on the tip. 



Scrubs on the Goldie River. 



Ptilopus superbus. 

 Eggs— white, oval, length 1-2 x 0*88, 123 x 0-87, slightly 

 swollen in the centre. 



Ptilopus pulchellus. 



White, oblong, oval, equally rounded at both ends, length 

 1-1 x0-75. 



Carpophaga poliura. — Salvad. 



Oval, pointed at thin end, dull white ; length 1-26 x 0-86. 

 Lalokie Scrubs. 



Caprimulgus Macrourus. 



Three eggs, two for a sitting; length a 1*15 x 86, b 1-15 x 0*86, 

 from same bird. The 3rd, 1-06 x 0*8 9c, is a smaller egg, and 

 found by itself, t'06 x 0-8 Ml were placed on the ground. 



They are of a light creamy, with obscure dull slate grey spots, 

 and a zone of similar spots round the larger end (a). No. 9 b, has 

 no zone., No. 9 c, the smallest, has the spots more evenly dispersed 

 over the surface. 



Drepanornis d' Albertisi. 



The nest is a thin, rather flat structure, built between a 

 horizontal bough in the fork of a thin branch ; it has a slight 

 depression about 1 inch deep, a net-work of wire rootlets are 

 stretched across the fork, and the nest proper built on them ; it is 

 compossd of wiry grasses of a light reddish brown color, the 

 platform being of black wiry roots. 



The egg is in length 1*37, by one inch in breadth ; it is of a light 

 dull cream color, with a reddish tinge, spotted all over with oblong 

 dashes of reddish browo and light purplish grey, closer on the 

 thick end. 



