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3. Port Lincoln, S. Australia. 



3. New South Wales. 



2. Victoria. 



3. Victoria, 21st Nov. (A. J. North). 

 1. Gippsland, Victoria. 



Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Govt, of Victoria [P.]. 

 Crowlev Bequest. 

 F. A. Philbrick, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



K.C. 



Cinclorhamphus rufescens ( Vig. Sr Horsf.). 



Ptenoedus rufescens, Gould, Havdb. Birds Austr. i. p. 397 (1865). 

 Cinclorhamphus rufescens, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 500 (1883) ; 



North, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 153 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 62 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests §• Eyas Austr. Birds, i. 



p. 276, pi. 11 (1901) ; Shuipe, Hand-l. iv. p. 26 (1903). 



The eggs of the Australian Rufous Babbler vary from blunt to 

 pointed oval in shape, are moderately glossy and variable in size. 

 The ground-colour ranges from pinkish white to salmon-pink, and 

 this is thickly speckled and blotched with rich chestnut and 

 lavender. The markings are fine on some examples, coarse 

 and blotchy on others. The largest specimen in the Collection 

 measures -9 by "7 ; the smallest -8 by -6. 



Australia. 



Queensland (Owen). 



Queensland {Owen). 



Queensland (Owen). 



Queensland. 



1 )awson River, Queensland, 1 4th Oct. 



New South AVales. 



New South Wales. 



New South AVales. 



New South Wales (Gould : Tristram 



Coll.) 

 Cardino-ton, Bell River, N.S.W. {E. 



P.Ramsay: Tristram Coll.). 

 Fish River (E. P. R. : Tristram Coll.). 

 Toorak, Victoria, 1st Dec. (^4. J. 



North). 

 Adelaide, South Australia (E. P. 



Ramsay). 



Sahin-Godman Cull. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Crowlev Bequest. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Genus TIMELIA, Horsf. 



Timelia jerdoni, Wald. 



(Plate I. fig. 19.) 



Timelia pileata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 507 (1883) [part.l ; 



Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 132 (1889) [part.]; id. ed. 



Hume, Nests $■ Eggs End. Birds, i. p. 90 (1889) : Nehrk. Kat 



Eiersamml. p. 62 (1899). 

 Timelia jerdoui, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 26 (1903). 



The eggs of Jerdon's Red-capped Babbler are normally of a 

 broad oval form, but a few are lengthened and some approach the 

 spheroidal shape. They have a considerable amount of gloss. 



