434 



breadth from "87 to 'QS. One exceptionally small egg from 

 Doorook measures 1-02 by -93 inch. 



Port Essingtou, N. Australia, 4tli 



Dec. 

 Doolaloo, N. Queensland, 4tli Jan. 



Doolaloo, 8th Jan. 



Doolaloo, 17th Jan. 



Doolaloo, 18th Jan. 



Doolaloo, 18th Jan. 



Doolaloo, 19th Jan. 



Doolaloo, 23rd .Tan. 



Doolaloo, 24th Jan. 



Doolaloo, 28th Jan. 



Doolaloo. 



1. Doorook, N. Queensland, 3rd 



March. 



2. Dawson Eiver, Queensland, Oct. 



(A. J. Xort/i). 



Gould Coll. 



W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Uadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.l. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Kadclifte Saunders, Esq. 



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W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Radclifte Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[R]. 

 Crowley Bequast. 



Genus SPHECOTHERES, VleilJ. 

 Sphecotheres maxillaris {Latli.). 



Sphecotheres maxillaris, GouM, Hnmlh. Birrls Ausfr. i. p. 467 (1865) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 224 (1877) ; Fitzqerahl, Pr. Litin. 

 Soc. N.S. W. (2) ii. p. 970 (1887) ; North, Nests ^- Eggs Birch Avstr. 

 p. 185. pi. xi. fig. 11 (1889) ; id. Bee. Ausfr. 31t/s. i. p. 113 (1891); 

 Campbell, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 82 (1901) ; North, Nests 

 ^- Effi/s Birds Austr. ' i. p. 81 (1902) ; Shari^e, Hand-l. v. p. 555 

 (1909) ; iVWir/v. Kat. Eiersumml. p. 353 (1910). 



Three eggs of the Fig-bird resemble the greener forms of S.flavi- 

 ventris described below. They are pale greyish-green spotted with 

 chestnut, orange-brown, and pale pur])lish-red, the markings being 

 rather more numerous toAvards the larger end of the shell. They 

 measure respectively : 1-38 by -96 ; 1-36 by -9 ; and 1-32 by -9. 



3. East Queensland. 



T. Carter, Esq. [C.]. 



