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moderately glossy. The ground-colour is pale salmon-pink, and 

 tins IS sparingly and very delicately marked with spots and very 

 small blotches of pale chestnut and underlying lavender--rev It 

 measures 1-42 by -1)6. ''' 



1. Australia. Gould Coll. 



Sub-Family CENTROPODINiE. 

 Genus CENTROPUS, Illiger. 



The eggs of the Coucals or Crow-Pheasants vary from a broad 

 oval or elliptical shape to a spheroidal one. They are plain white 

 and moderately glossy. The shell is chalky in te.xture and some- 

 what rough to the touch. 



Centropus ateralbus, Less. 

 Centropus atei-albus Z«v«;y/, Ibis, 1880, p. .300; SheHey, Cat. Birds 

 R M. XIX p. 3-M (1891) ; Xehrk. Kat. Eiersamvd. p. 172 (1899) ■ 

 Sharpe, Hund-l. ii. p. 106 (1900). ^ ^ ' ' 



Two eggs of the Pied Coucal in the CoUection measure resnec- 

 tively : 1-33 by 1-19 ; 1-54 by 1-3. 



2. New Britain. Crowley Ber^uest. 



Centropus menebiki (Less. 4- Gam.). 



Centropus menebiki, Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. x\x v 336 fl891) • 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 166 (1900). v y , 



An egg of the Giant Coucal in the Collection measures 1-45 hv 

 I'Oo. •' 



1. S.E. New Guinea. Herr Weiske [C.]. 



Centropus nigricans (Salvnd.). 

 Centropus nigricans. Shellei/, Cat. Birds B. M. xix p 339 (1891) • 

 fl9C)0)' ^"^' ^'"■*'''^'"'- P- 1^2 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii! p. 166 



Two eggs of the Blackish Coucal measure respectively : 1-4S bv 

 Ml ; 1-41 by 1-09. '' 



2. Fergnsson Island, New Guinea, Crowley Bequest. 



30th Oct. (A. S. Meek). ' ^ 



Centropus phasianus {Lath.). 

 Centropus phasianus Gutdd, Handh. Birds Austr. i. p. 634 (1865^ • 

 J\orth, Ae^ts f Eygs Austr. Birck, p. 249 (1889.; Shellei/, Cat 



H^?)/- V-/;"Pa-'/^^^"^^)' ^'^ W, Vict, ivk xvl\ n 

 (Ib.i.f); i^chrk. Kat. Eiersatnml p. 172 (1899)- Unhintnn. Xr 

 laverock IH. 1900, p. 64; Shar^ 7/„„.A H 'V- Ifi^TSoO)^ 

 Campbdl, Ar.s7*- ^- Iu,,j, Austr. Birds, ii. p. "/.H) (1901). 



