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Family LANIID^. 

 Genus GYMNOEHINA, Gray. 



Gymnorhina tibicen {Lath.). 



Barita tibicen, Thkn. Fortjyftanz. qes. V'og. tab. xxxviii. fig. 12, a, b 

 (1845-54). 



Gymnorhina tibicen, Goidd, Sandb. Birds Austr. i. p. 175 (1865) ; 

 Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 300 ; Gadoiv, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 91 

 (1883) ; North, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 58, pi. vii. figs. 4, 5, 6 

 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Mersamml. p. 68 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests Sr 

 Eqgs Austr. Birds, i. p. 290 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 276 

 (1903). 



The eggs of the Piping Crow-Shrike vary from an oval to an 

 ellipsoid shape, are very glossy, and vary greatly in size and colour. 

 Mr. Eamsay (J. c.) has described seven types of the eggs of this 

 species. 



The Collection contains eggs of the following types : — Very pale 

 blue, thickly mottled, blotched, and lined with chestnut-brown and 

 lavender ; bluish white, densely blotched with lilac and covered 

 with lines and streaks of pale reddish brown ; bluish white, blotched 

 with lilac-grey and wood-brown in large confluent masses ; bluish 

 grey, marked with distinct roundish spots and blotches of inky- 

 purple and chocolate-brown, the edges of these being much blurred 

 and running into the surrounding ground-colour ; brownish buff, 

 rather densely mottled with dark lavender and pale brown. They 

 measure from 1-35 to 1-7 in length, and from 1 to 1-12 in breadth. 



1. Laid in confinement (Antwerp Zool. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gardens). 



2. Australia. Gould Coll. 



3. Queensland. Gould Coll. 



4. Dawson River, Queensland, 2nd Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



{North Coll.). 



2. Moreton Bav. Gould Coll. 



2. New South "^Wales. Gould Coll. 



2. New South Wale.?. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Springfield, New South Wales, Sept. Gould Coll. 



2. Springfield, Sept. Gould Coll. 



3, Lachl'an River {E. P. Ramsay). Crowley Bequest. 

 3. Hastings, Victoria, 17th Aug. Crowley Bequest. 



{A. J. North). 

 1. Adelaide. E. S. Moulden, Esq. [P.]. 



Gymnorhina leuconota, Gray. 



Barita leuconota, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vbg. tab. xxxviii. fig. 13 



(1845-54). 

 Gymnorhina leuconota, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 176 (1865) ; 



Gadoiv, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 92 (1883) ; North, Nests Sf Eggs 



