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spheroidal. They exhihit a small amount of gloss. The ground 

 colour is white, and this in some cases is densely speckled, in 

 others speckled, mottled, and streaked, with purplish brown, umber- 

 brown, and underlying lavender. The markings are more closely 

 set together at the broad end than elsewhere, and sometimes form 

 an irregular cap. Examples measure from -8 to -92 in length, and 

 from '62 to -68 in breadth. 



1. 



Iloshungabad, India, 4th May Hume Coll. 



{E. C. Nunn). 



Calcutta, 7th May. 



Dibrugurh, Assam, 3rd April (J. R. 

 Cnpps). 



Dibrugurh, 3rd May (J. R. C). 



Sadiya, Assam, 29th May {Cock- 

 burn). 



Wau, Pegu, 19th > May {E. W. 

 Ontes). 



Pegu, 19th May (^. W. O.). 



Pegu, 19th May {E. W. O. : See- 

 bohm Cull.). 



Java. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Megalurus gramineus (Gould). 



Sphenceacus gramineus, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 400 (1865). 

 Megalurus gramineus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 125 (1883) ; North, 



Nests ^ E(jqs Austr. Birds, i. p. 146 (1887) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 



p. 62 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 224, pi. 10 



(1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 202 (1903). 



The eggs of the Little Australian Grass-Warbler are of a blunt 

 oval form and almost devoid of gloss. They are pinkish white, 

 densely speckled and mottled with reddish brown, purplish red and 

 underlying lavender. lu some examples the markings are ex- 

 tremely dense round the larger end and form a broad zone. In 

 others they are evenly distributed over the shell. Specimens 

 measure from -7 to •75 in length, and from -52 to '58 in breadth. 



2. South Australia. 



4. Melbourne ( W. Bridger). 



1. Melbourne {W.B.: Tristram Coll.). 



3. Canterbury, N.S.W., 9th Nov. 



(A. J. North). 



1. Albert Park, Victoria, 30th Nov. 



(A. J. N). 



2. Tasmania {E. D. Atkinson). 



Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Megalurus ruflceps, Tiwedd. 



(Plate IX. fig. 19.) 



Megalurus ruficeps, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 125 (1883) ; Sttere, 

 List Birds Sf- Mamm. Philipp. p. 30 (1890) ; Grant ^- Whitehead, 



