IRKISOKID^ 



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blue ovals, marked throughout with very fine indistinct pale brown 

 mottlings, measuring 1-05 X 0-72. Mr. Millar, who has observed 

 this bird nesting near Durban, states that when the eggs are first 

 laid they are pale blue in colour, but that in two or three days 

 they turn to a dirty white, which is certainly the colour of eggs 

 preserved in collections. 



Fig. 10. —Tail of Irrisor viridis. 



Family II. IRRISORID^. 



Bill long, slender, and curved from base to tip ; tongue short ; 

 nostrils elongated, with overhanging ledge, or operculum, half con- 

 cealing the opening ; no crest ; wings rounded, with ten primaries; 

 tail of ten feathers, wedge-shaped and much graduated, the central 



