260 ' ARTAMIDJE. 



3. South Australia (G. F. A ngas). Gould Coll. 



2. South Australia. Gould Coll. 



1. New South Wales {J. Gould: Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram Coll.). 



2. Lachlan River, N.S.W., 10th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 



3. Lachlan River, 16th Nov. {A. J. N.). Crowley Bequest. 

 3. South Australia. Gould Coll. 



3. Adelaide. E. S. Moulden, Esq. [P.] 



3. Victoria. Government of Victoria [P.]. 



2. Victoria. Government of Victoria [1VJ. 



Artamus hypoleucus, Sharpe. 

 (Plate XI. fig. 16.) 



Artamus albiventris, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 149 (1865) ; 

 North, Nests 8r Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 45 (1889). 



Artamus hypoleucus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 17 (1890); 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersdmml. p. 120 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests $ Eggs 

 Austr. Birds, i. p. 470 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 261 (1903). 



The eggs of the White-bellied Swallow- Shrike do not appear to 

 differ from those of A. melanops described below. Three examples 

 measure respectively : -9 by '(56 ; "92 by -67 ; *85 by "66. 



3. Dawson River, Queensland, 6th Nov. Crowley Bequest. 

 {North Coll.). 



Artamus melanops, Gould. 



Artamus melanops, Gould, Handb. Bin/* Austr. i. p. 149 (1865); Norf/i, 

 Nests 8f Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 46, pi. viii. fig. L3 (1889); Sharpe, 

 Cat. Hints' B. M. xiii. p. 17 (1890); Le Souef, Vict. Nat. xvi. 

 p. 69 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Hints, i. p. 471 (1901); 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 262 (1903). 



The eggs of the Black-faced Swallow-Shrike are of a regular 

 oval shape and moderately glossy. They are of a creamy-white 

 colour, sometimes faintly tinged with pink, spotted and blotched 

 with umber-brown and lavender. The markings extend over the 

 whole shell, but they are more numerous round the broad end of 

 the egg, where they are more or less confluent and form a wreath. 

 Specimens measure from *82 to # 9 in length, and from "62 to '7 

 in breadth. 



3. New South Wales, 18th Oct. (A. J. Crowley Bequest. 



North). 

 3. Mosso-iel,N.S.W.,3rdOct. (A.J.N.). Crowley Bequest 

 6. Lachlan River, N.S.W. (E. P. Crowley Bequest. 



Ramsay). 



