MYZOMELA.—ACANTHORHYNCHUS. 35 
Two eggs of the Sanguineous Honey-eater are of a blunt oval 
shape and moderately glossy. They are white, marked round the 
broad end with a well-defined zone of chestnut-brown and lavender 
spots and small blotches. One specimen is also marked with a 
few blackish specks on or near the zone. They measure respec- 
tively: -57 by -45; °59 by °47. 
9. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 
Myzomela nigra, Gould. 
Meliphaga nigra, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xvi. fig. 1 (1845-54). 
Myzomela nigra, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 558 (1865); Gadow, 
Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 188 (1884); Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S. W. (2) i. p. 1151 (1886) ; North, Nests § Eggs Austr. birds, 
p. 223 (1889); Campbell, Nests § Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 304 
(1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 68 (1906). 
The eggs of the Black Honey-eater are of an oval shape and 
nearly devoid of gloss. They are yellowish-buff, marked round 
the broad end with a broad indistinct zone of more or less confluent 
specks of pale brownish-buff. Four examples measure respectively : 
59 by 47; °58 by 46; °63 by -46; -63 by -47. 
2. West Australia. Gould Coll. 
2. South Australia. Gould Coll. 
Myzomela obscura, Gould. 
Myzomela obscura, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 659 (1865) ; Gadow, 
Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 143 (1884) ; Campbell, Nests § Eggs Austr. 
Birds, i. p. 356, pl. 18 (1901); Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, p. 64; Sharpe, 
Hand-l. vy. p. 70 (1906). 
An egg of the Dusky Honey-eater closely resembles that of 
M., rubratra both in form and markings. It measures *7 by *52. 
1. Prinee of Wales Island, Torres Earl of Crawford [P.]. 
Straits (M. J. Nicoll). 
Genus ACANTHORHYNCHUS, Gould. 
Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris (Lath.). 
Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 551 
(1865); Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 144 (1884); North, Nesés 
&§ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 220, pl. xii. tig. 20 (1889); Nekrk. Kat. 
Eersamml. p. 79 (1899); Campbell, Nests § Eggs Austr, Birds, i. 
p. 858 (1901); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 71 (1906). 
The eggs of the Spine-bill are of a pointed oval form and slightly 
glossy. They are cream-colour or pale creamy-buff, marked, almost 
entirely at the broad end, with spots and small blotches, which 
in some specimens are entirely pale chestnut, and in others rich 
purplish-red and lavender. ‘They measure from 7 to 76 in length, 
and from °51 to °53 in breadth. 
2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 
2. Roseville, N.S.W., 17th November. A.J. North, Esq. [P.}. 
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