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strips of bark worked into the foundation ; tlie inside being lined entirely witli fine twigs. It 

 averages externally eight inches in diameter by four inches in depth, and the inner cup five 

 inches in diameter by two inches and a half in depth. 



Another nest, taken at Cape York, was an open cup-shaped structure, formed of dead 

 twigs lined with dried grasses, a few pieces of bark being worked into the lower part of its 

 foundation, and contained a single fresh egg. This specimen, which is represented on Plate 



B. II., Figure 8, is slightly shorter and more swollen in form than typical eggs of C. maculata. 

 but has the same close-grained shell and slightly glossy surface. It is of a very pale olive-green 

 ground colour with linear zig-zag wavy streaks and a few spots of different shades of li.ulit and 

 dark umber-brown confined principally to the thicker end of the shell. Length i'4i x 1-05 

 inches. Two eggs I saw that were taken near Port Moresby, New Guinea, had the markings, 

 which consisted of short wavy umber-brown streaks, uniformly and thickly distributed over 

 the surface of the shell. 



A beautiful egg of this species, taken by Mr. Bertie L. Jardine, at Somerset, on the nth 

 November, 1901, and kindl)' lent by him for description, is elongate-oval in form, the shell 

 being close-grained, and its surface smooth and slightly lustrous. It is of a faint creamy-white 

 ground colour, tinged with olive, and has numerous well-defined thread-like lines wound 

 latitudinally and irregular!}' round and around the shell, with which are intermingled bold 

 zig-zag and wavy cross-lines, loops, scrolls, and angular streaks of dark purplish-brown, and a 

 few faint underlying hair-like lines and streaks of dark purplish-grey: in one place where 

 several of the broader and darker lines are confluent, a large conspicuous knot-like marking is 

 formed; on other parts of the shell they assume the form of broad streaks, while on the 

 pointed end is a single isolated fish-hook shaped marking of purplish-brown : — Length i-6 x i-i 

 inches. This egg, which was fresh, and the only one in the nest, is larger and the markings 

 are more uniformly distributed over the entire surface of the shell than in the specimen of 



C. cerviniventris, figured on Plate B. II. It more closely resembles in shape, size, and character 

 of some of its bolder markings. Figure 1 1 on the same plate of the egg of C. orientalis, to which 

 may be added the clear and well defined thread-like lines and streaks shown on P'igure 7 of the 

 egg of C. guttata. 



The egg figured and described by Dr. A. 1!. Meyer" as that of an unknown species 

 of Chlamydodcra, under the name of C. recondita, is now regarded bj' Dr. Meyer as the egg of 

 C. cerviniventris. It was found by Herr A. Grubauer in February, 1892, at Constantine Harbour, 

 German New Guinea, lying almost without any support in a large curved leaf of a palm, about 

 three feet above the water. 



Sericulus melinus. 



EEGENT BOWEK-lilKl). 

 Turdus melinus. Lath., Iiid. Orn., Suppl., p. xliv., (1801). 

 Sericulus chrysocephalus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol.. Vol. IV., pi. 12 (1848). 



Sericulus melinus, Gould, Handbk. Ikls. Austr., Vol. I., p. 45C (1865); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., Vol. VI., p. 39.5 (1891). 



Adult male — Head, hind neck, and mantle, hriglil orani/e-yelloir ; sinciput re.ddish-orange ; hack, 

 rump, and uj>per tail coverts black; upper ?citiff coverts black : first two primaries black, the next three 

 black, orange-yellow on their inner webs, except on tJie apical portion ; tlie r(.inaiiider of the primaries 



• Abhandl. k. zool. Mus., Dresd., No. 10, p. 2 (1895). 



