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towards the larger end. They measure respectively: 1-11 by °81 ; 
1-1 by °81; and 1:06 by °85. 
Duke of York, Bismarck Archip. Crowley Bequest. 
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2. New Britain, Bismarck Archip. Crowley Bequest. 
Aplonis brevirostris (Peale). 
(Plate XVIII. fig. 16.) 
Aplonis brevirostris, Whitmee, Ibis, 1875, p. 440; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
B. M. xiii. p. 180 (1890); Nehrk. Kat, Eiersamml. p. 122 (1899), 
p- 850 (1910); Sharpe, Hand-l. y. p. 527 (1909). 
The eggs of the Short-billed Tree-Starling are of an elongate oval 
form and possess a small amount of gloss. They are pale greenish- 
blue, spotted and blotched with chestnut, lilac, and purplish-grey, 
and are inseparable from some eggs of Lamprocorav metallica. 
They measure respectively: 1:08 by °7; 1:12 by °73. 
2. Samoa, March. Rey. S. J. Whitmee [C.]. 
Aplonis vitiensis, Layard. 
(Plate XVIII. fig. 17.) 
Aplonis tabuensis, Layard (nee G'mel.), P. Z. S. 1876, p. 435. 
Aplonis vitiensis, Layard, P. Z. S, 1876, p. 502 ; 2d., Lots, 1876, p. 39 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 181 (1890) ; td., Hand-l. vy. p. 5 
(1909): Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 850 (1910). 
2; 
527 
Three eggs of the Fiji Islands Tree-Starling are of a very broad 
oval shape and slightly glossy. One has the ground white, while 
in two it is of a pale greenish-blue: all are spotted and blotched 
with reddish-brown and lilae, and in one the markings are dense 
at the broad end and sparse elsewhere. They measure respectively: 
1-09 by °8; 1:08 by -72; and 1-0 by -76. 
1. Fiji Islands, Oct. (7. M. Rayner). Voy. H.MS. ‘ Herald.’ 
2, Wakaya, Fiji Islands, 26th Dec. Crowley Bequest. 
(BE. L. Layard: Tristram Coll.). 
Aplonis atrifusca, Peale. 
Sturnoides atrifusca, Whitmee, Ibis, 1875, p. 440; Layard, P. Z. 8. 1876, 
p. 494. ; 
Aplonis atrifusca, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 154 (1890) ; Nehrk. 
Kat. Eversamml., p. 122 (1899), p. 851 (1910) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. y. 
p- 528 (1909). 
The eggs of the Blackish-brown Tree-Starling are of a narrow 
oval shape and almost devoid of gloss. They are of a greenish- 
blue colour, with a very few minute specks of lilac scattered here 
