PACHTCEPnALA, 295 



The eggs of the Australian Bell-bird are of an ordinary oval shape 

 and but slightly glossy. The majority are bluish white, spotted 

 with black and, in a minor degree, with slaty grey. Others are 

 pale blue, marked, chietly at the broad end, with spots, scrawls, and 

 thick lines of black and lavender-grey. Examples measure from 

 1*09 to 1"15 in length, and from '78 to -85 in breadth. 



1. Australia {E. P. Seymour). Crowley Bequest. 

 3. Australia. " Gould Coll. 



2. West Australia, Sept. Gould Coll. 



1. Cardington, Bell liiver, N.S.W., Crowley Bequest. 



25tb Aug. {E. P. liamsmj: 

 Tristram Coll.). 



2. Liverpool, N.S.W., 12th Dec. Crowley Bequest. 



{A. J. North). 



3. Ivanhoe, N.S.W., 13th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



{A. J. N.). 



Genus PACHYCEPHALA, Vig. 6f Horsf. 

 Pachycephala torqxiata, Lcujanl. 



Pachycephala torquata, Lmjard, Ibis, 187G, p. 146 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. viii. p. 201 (18S3) ; Sharpe, Uand-l. iv. p. 303 (1903). 



An e%%, which Layard did not authenticate satisfactorily, but 

 which he was of opinion might be referable to the Taviuni Thick- 

 head, is of a narrow, pointed oval shape, extremely glossy and of 

 a rufous-chocolate colour, with a broad band of very dark brown, 

 almost black, round the larger end. It measures 1'14 by "Tli. 

 This egg is quite unlike those of the other Pachycephaline bird* 

 in the Collection, and must be considered very doubtful. 



1. Fiji Islands {E. L. Layard: Crowley Bequest. 



Trintram Coll.). 



Pachycephala rosseliana, Harteri. 



(Plate XIII. fig. 14.) 



Pachvcephalu rosseliana, JIartert, Bull. B. 0. C. viii. p. viii. (1898); 

 iSharpe, Uand-l. iv. p. 305 (1903). 



Two eggs of the Rossel-Island Thickhead, taken by Mr. Meek, 

 are of a very broad oval sliape, approaching the spherical, and 

 moderately glossy. They are of a greyish-pink colour, spotted and 

 blotched with uuiber-brown aud deep lavender. The markings are 

 fairly evenly distributed over the surface of the shell. They 

 measure respectively : -9 by lb ; -91 by u2. 



2. St. Aignan, Louisiade Archipelago. \. S. .Meek [C.]. 



