ie, DICHIDA. 
Pardalotus quadragintus, Gould. 
Pardalotus quadragintus, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr, i. p. 160 (1865) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 62 (1885); North, Nests §& Eggs 
Austr. Birds, p. 54 (1889); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersammil. p. 84 (1899) ; 
Campbell, Nests § Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 449 (1901); Sharpe, 
Hand-l. v. p. 30 (1906). 
Three eggs of the Forty-spotted Diamond-bird are spheroidal in 
form, white, and slightly glossed. They measure from *59 to *62 
in length, and from -5 to °51 in breadth. 
1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 
2. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 
Genus PIPRISOMA, Blyth. 
Piprisoma squalidum (Burt.). 
(Plate I. fig. 6.) 
Piprisoma agile, Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 416; 1867, p. 430, pl. x.; Legge, 
Birds Ceylon, p. 579 (1879). 
Prionochilus squalidus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 73 (1885); 
Nehrk. Kat. Eiersammil. p. 84 (1899). 
Piprisoma squalidum, Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 882 (1890) ; 
ad., ed. Hume, Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 277 (1890) ; Sharpe, 
Hand-l, v. p. 32 (1906). 
The eggs of the Thick-billed Flower-pecker are of a regular oval 
shape and slightly glossy. They are pale pink, and densely marked 
‘with confluent blotches and clouds of chestnut-brown and lavender- 
grey *. They measure from °6 to ‘63 in length, and from °45 to 
-46 in breadth. 
1. Northern India, 24th February. Hume Coll. 
2, Maunbhum, 29th March (R. C. Crowley Bequest. 
Beavan: Tristram Coil.). 
2. Maunbhum, 18th April (2. C. B.: Crowley Bequest. 
Tristram Coll.). 
Genus MELANOCHARIS, Scelater. 
Melanocharis striativentris, Salvad. 
(Plate I. fig. 18.) 
Melanocharis striativentris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (2) xiv. p. 150 
(1894) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. y. p. 33 (1906). 
An egg of Salvadori’s Flower-pecker is of a broad oval shape 
and devoid of gloss; the ground-colour is pinkish-white, blotched 

* Mr. Stuart Baker (Ibis, 1896, p. 350) has described the nests and eggs of 
the closely allied P. modestum. 
