ClIENOfSIS. AN3KKANAS. 14! 



Genus CHENOPSIS, ]ra;/hr. 

 Chenopsis atrata {Lath.). 



Cj-yim.- iitiatus, 'J7iieii. Fortjjfian::. UfS. J'u(/. tab. Ixxvii. fig. 2 (184.J-54) ; 



yort/i, A'csts vS- Hf/i/s .4uiitr. Birds, p. 333 (1889). 

 Cyguus iilutoiiius, Baedeker, Eter Eur. Viig. tab. 31. fig. 2 (1855-63). 

 Cheiuipis atrata, Gould, Handb. Birds Avstr. ii. p. 346 (1805) ; Salvadori, 



Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 41 (1895). 

 L'beiiopsis atrata, S/iarpe, Hand-l. i. p. 208 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests i^- 



Ei/f/s Anstr. Birds, ii. p. 1014 (1901). 



The eggs of the Black Swan are variable in colour, some re- 

 sembling the eggs of C;i(/nus ci/<jnus and others those of C. olor. Two 

 examjjles are of a clear bluish-grey colour. Specimens measure 

 from 3-'.i7 to 4-45 in length, and from 2-5 to 2-7 in breadth. 



• ',. Au-tvalia. Gould Coll. 



1'. Australia. Purchased. 



1. Australia. Old Collection. 



1. Australia. Sir D. E. Cooper [P.]. 



1. Australia (Hunjitt Coll.). Seebohm Coll. 



'2. Australia. ' Donald Mackintosh, Esq. [P.J. 



1. Swan Piiver, West Australia (G'. ./. Crowley ]'>equest. 



B'lstocl; : Tristram Coll.). 



1. Queensland. Gould Coll. 



1. ( ;ippsland, Victoria. F. A. Philbrick, Esq., K.C. [P.J. 



'2. ^lurrav Swamps. Victoria, 10th Sept. Crowley Bequest. 



(,-(.V. North). 



1. Laid in contineuient (Hanks of the Purchased. 



Tliaiues, 17th March). 



1. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gardens, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



London). 



1. Laid in confinement (St. James's Crowley P>equest. 



Park, London). 



Sub-Family ANSERANATINtE. 



Genus ANSERANAS. Less. 

 Anseranas semipalmata (Lath.). 



Anseranas melanoleuca, Gould, Hatidb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 352 (1865) ; 



North, Nests if E'/ijs Austr. Birds, p. 335 (1889). 

 Anseranas semipalmata, Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. .\xvii. p. 44 (1895 1; 



Sharpe. Hand-l. i. p. 208 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests S; Eggs Austr. 



Birds.u. p. 1017 (1901). 



The eggs of the Scmipalmated Goose are very broad ellipses, 

 smooth, glossy, pitted -with small pores, and of a yellowish white. 

 Four specimens measure respectivelv : 2"!i0 by 2*2; 2*84 by 2"li'>;, 

 :}-05 by 2-2 ; 3 by 2-22. 



1. Australia (.4. .7. Campbell). Crowley Bequest. 



1. New South Wales (Sir D. Cooper). Gould Coll. 



2. Corinella, Victoria, 16th Oct. {A.J. Crowley Bequest. 



North). 



