48 MELIPHAGID^. 



Genus MELIORNIS, Gmtj. 



Meliornis pyrrhoptera {Lath.). 



Lichmera australasiana, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 493 (1865) ; 



North, Nests i^- IJfff/s Austr. Birds, p. 19o, pi, xii. fig. 17 (1889). 

 Melioruis australasiana, Gadoiu, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 252 (1884) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 82 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests Sf Eggs 



Austr. Birds, i. p. 411 (1901). 

 Meliornis pyrrhoptera; Sharpe, Hand-J. \. p. 87 (1906). 



Eggs of the Crescent Honey-eater are of a regular or rather 

 blunt oval form and very slightly glossy. The ground-colour is 

 pinkish-cream-colour, speckled, chiefly about the broader end, with 

 purplish-red and lilac : in one egg the ground-colour shades into 

 bright chestnut-rufous towards the larger end. They measure 

 from '7 to '76 in length, and from -52 to 'oo in breadth. 



Meliornis novse hollandise, Lath. 



Meliornis novas hollandiae, Gould, Handh. Birds Austr. i. p. 486 (1805) ; 

 Gado20, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 253 (1884) ; North, Nests ^- Eggs 

 Austr. Birds, p. 191 (1889) ; Nehrk. Eat. Eiersamml. p. Q-2 (1899) ; 

 Campbell, Nests &,- Eqqs Austr. Birds, i. p. 412, pi. 14 (1901) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. V. p. 87 (1906). 



Eggs of the New Holland Honey-eater are of a broad oval form 

 and moderately glossy. They are of a pinkish-cream-colour, very 

 distinctly speckled and spotted, chiefly at the broad end, with rich 

 purplish-red and lavender. They measure from '75 to '88 in 

 length, and from -6 to 'GS in breadth. 



1. Australia. W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



1. Australia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 3. Queensland. Gould CoU. 



2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 

 2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



2. New South Wales (/. Gould). Crowley Bequest. 



2. New South Wales (J. G. : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



2. Botany, N.S.W., 20th August Crowley Bequest. 



{A. J. North). 



2. Canterhmy, N.S.W., 12th April. A. J. North, Esq. [P.]. 



1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



1. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 



