434 
breadth from ‘87 to ‘95. 
2. Port Essington, N. Australia, 4th 
2. Dose, N. Queensland, 4th Jan. 
2. Doolaloo, 8th Jan. 
2. Doolaloo, 17th Jan. 
2. Doolaloo, 18th Jan. 
1. Doolaloo, 18th Jan. 
2, Doolaloo, 19th Jan. 
3. Doolaloo, 23rd Jan. 
2. Doolaloo, 24th Jan. 
1. Doolaloo, 28th Jan. 
Doolaloo. 
eV) 
: 
1. Doorook, 
March. 
Dawson River, Queensland, Oct. 
(A. J. North). 
N. Queensland, 
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to 
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Gould Coll. 
W. Radcliffe 
DE. 
W. Radcliffe 
P 
W. Radcliffe 
BEsIE 
W. Radclifte 
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W. Radcliffe 
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EBA: 
W. Radcliffe 
fea sae 
W. Radcliffe 
Geel 
W. Radcliffe 
(EBS): 
W. Radcliffe 
Pi: 
W. Radcliffe 
(P.] 
One exceptionally small egg from 
Doorook measures 1-02 by 98 inch. 
Saunders, Hsq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Saunders, Esq. 
Crowley Bequest. 
Genus SPHECOTHERES, Veill. 
Sphecotheres maxillaris (Zath.). 
Sphecotheres maxillaris, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 467 (1865) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 224 (1877); Fitzgerald, Pr. Linn. 
Soc. N.S. W. (2) ii. p. 970 (1887) ; North, Nests § Eggs Birds Austr. 
p. 185. pl. xi. fig. 11 (1889) ; 7d. Ree. Austr. Mus. i. p. 118 (1891); 
Campbell, Nests § Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 82 (1901) ; 
Jorth, Nests 
& Eggs Birds Austr. i. p. 81 (1902); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 555 
(1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersammil. p. 853 (1910). 
Three eggs of the Fig-bird resemble the greener forms of S. flavi- 
ventris described below. 
They are pale greyish-green spotted with 
chestnut, orange-brown, and pale purplish-red, the markings being 
rather more numerous towards the larger end of the shell. 
They 
measure respectively : 1°38 by ‘96; 1:36 by -9; and 1°32 by °9. 
3. East Queensland. 
T. Carter, Esq. [C.]. 
