48 PTILONORHYNCHID.E. 



A remarkably handsome egg of a set of two in Mr. Joseph Gabriel's collection, is of a very 

 delicate greenish-grey ground colour, boldly marked on the larger half of the shell with irregular 

 linear markings, loops, and scrolls of umber-brown and black, interwoven near the centre with 

 fine black hair lines and similar underlying markings of purplish-grey ; the smaller end, with 

 the exception of a few straggling but conspicuous linear streaks of umber-brown and a single 

 purplish-black spot, being devoid of markings. Length: — 1-56 x i-o8 inches. Figure 4, 

 Plate B. II., is from Mr. G. Savidge's collection, and Figure 5 from Mr. J. Gabriel's collection. 



October, and the three following months, constitute the usual breeding season of this 

 species in South-eastern Australia. It is probable that the young males, which are at first 

 similar in plumage to the adult female, do not wholly attain the rose-pink frill on the nape until 

 the second season. In June, the adult males are in beautiful plumage, and have the frill well 

 developed. Several young males in the collection obtained during that month at Buckiinguy, 

 have no indication of the frill ; another has only four rose-pink feathers on the nape. A young 

 male shot at New .\ngledool in the same month, together with several very fine adult and fully 

 plumaged males, has only a small square patch of rose-pink feathers on the centre of the nape. 

 Evidently these are young males of the previous season. The description and figure given of the 

 adult male is that of a newly moulted bird. Just prior to the moult the spots on the upper parts and 

 the tips of the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers, are much- paler and have a washed-out 

 appearance. A specimen in the moult, now before me, exhibits the old feathers on the upper 

 parts W'ith buflfy -white spots, and the new ones with rich tawny-bu(T spots near the ends of the 

 feathers. The basal half of the occipital plumes of some adult males is distinctly tinged with 

 reddish-orange. 



Chlamydodera guttata. 



UUITATEU HOWKK-HIKI). 



Chlami/dera guttata, tJould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1862, p. 1G2 ; id,, Btls. .\ustr., fol., Siippl., pi. 3.5 

 (18C9). 



Chlamydodera guttata, Gould. Handlik, Bis. Austr., Vol. T., p. 4.5.3 (186.5); Sharpe, Cat. Eds. Brit. 

 Mus., Vol. VI., p. 390 (1881); North, Vict. Nat., Vol. XVI, p. 9 (1899). 



Adult male — Ghneral colour above blackish-broiru, each Jhatlier of the mantle, scapulars, back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts with a rounded spot of rich creamy-btiff at the tip; the lesser uing coverts 

 like the back; the median and greater coverts blackish-brown, with rich yell owish-biiff' tips, the latter 

 also margined on their outer wtbs with the same colour ; primaries and secondaries brown, externally 

 edged and all but the outer series of the primaries tipped with pale yellotvish-biiff ; tail feathers dark 

 brown, edged with bufjfy-brown, and tipped with rich buff, which gradually passes into buffy-white on 

 the lateral feathers ; head blackish brown, all the feathers ivith a small rounded spot of tawny-buff 

 near the end and tipped with silvery-white ; on the nape a band of beautiful rosy-lilac plumes with a 

 silvery lustre ; sides of the neck and hind-neck blackish-brown, icith a small rounded spot of rich 

 yellowish-buff at t/ie end of each feather ; throat blackish -brown centred with yellowish-buff on the 

 apical portion of the featliers ; remainder of the under surface creamy-buff, washed with rich buffy- 

 brown on the sides of the body; under tail-coverts creamybvff, the basal portion of some of the 

 feathers having blackish-brou:n cross-bars ; bill black, tinged with olive ; legs olive-green ; feet darker, 

 •nearly black. Total length 10 inches, wing o-7, tail 3'8, bill OSS, tarsus I'o. 



Adult fem.\le — Similar in plumage to the niah' : but the nape, icliicli is like the head, is 

 destitute of the silvery rose-lilac nuchal plumes. 



Distribution. — \\'estern -Australia, Central .Vustralia. 



