48 MELIPHAGID&. 
Genus MELIORNIS, Gray. 
Meliornis pyrrhoptera (Zath.). 
Lichmera australasiana, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 493 (1865); 
North, Nests § Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 195, pl. xii. fig. 17 (1889). 
Meliornis australasiana, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 252 (1884); 
Nehrk. Kat. Eversamml. p. 82 (1899); Campbell, Nests § Eggs 
Austr, Birds, i. p. 411 (1901). 
Meliornis pyrrhoptera, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 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 °55 in breadth. 
1. Australia (A. J. Campbell). Crowley Bequest. 
1. Australia. T. Carter, Esq. [C.]. 
1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 
2, ‘Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 
3. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 
Meliornis nove hollandiz, Lath. 
Meliornis nove hollandiz, Gould, Handb, Birds Austr. i. p. 486 (1865) ; 
Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 253 (1884); North, Nests § Eggs 
Austr. Birds, p. 191 (1889); Nehrk. Kat. Eversamml. p. 82 (1899) ; 
Campbell, Nests § Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 412, pl. 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 °63 in breadth. 
1. Australia. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
1. Australia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 
3. Queensland. Gould Coll. 
2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 
2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 
2. New South Wales (J. Gould). Crowley Bequest. 
2. NewSouth Wales (J.G.: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
2. Botany, N.S.W., 20th August Crowley Bequest. 
(A. J. North). 
Canterbury, N.S.W., 12th April. A. J. North, Esq. [P.]. 
Tasmania. Gould Coll. 
Tasmania. - Crowley Bequest. 
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