PACHYCEPHALA. 295 



The eggs of the Australian Bell-bird are of an ordinary oval shape 

 and but slightly glossy. The majority are bluish white, spotted 

 with black and, in a minor degree, with slaty grey. Others are 

 pale blue, marked, chiefly at the broad end, with spots, scrawls, and 

 thick lines of black and lavender-grey. Examples measure from 

 1*09 to 1*15 in length, and from. "78 to "85 in breadth. 



1. Australia (E. P. Seymour). Crowley Bequest. 

 3. Australia. Gould Coll. 



2. West Australia, Sept. Gould Coll. 



1. Cardington, Bell Kiver, N.S.W., Crowley Bequest. 



25th Aug. (E. P. Ramsay: 

 Tristram Coll.). 



2. Liverpool, N.S.W., 12th Dec. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 



3. Ivanhoe, N.S.W., 13th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



{A. J. N.). 



Genus PACHYCEPHALA, Vig. Sf Horsf. 

 Pachycephala torquata, Layard. 



Pachycephala torquata, Layard, Ibis, 1876, p. 146 ; Gadotv, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. viii. p. 201 (1883) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 303 (1903). 



An egg, which Layard did not authenticate satisfactorily, but 

 which he was of opinion might be referable to the Taviuni Thick- 

 head, is of a narrow, pointed oval shape, extremely glossy and of 

 a rufous-chocolate colour, with a broad band of very dark brown, 

 almost black, round the larger end. It measures 1*14 by -76. 

 This egg is quite unlike those of the other Pachycephaline birds 

 in the Collection, and must be considered very doubtful. 



1. Fiji Islands (E. L. Layard; Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



Pachycephala rosseliana, Hartert. 

 (Plate XIII. fig. 14.) 



Pachycephala rosseliana, Hartert, Bull. B. O. C. viii. p. viii. (1898) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 305 (1903). 



Two eggs of the Rossel-Island Thickhead, taken by Mr. Meek, 

 are of a very broad oval shape, approaching the spherical, and 

 moderately glossy. They are of a greyish-pink colour, spotted and 

 blotched with umber-brown and deep lavender. The markings are 

 fairly evenly distributed over the surface of the shell. They 

 measure respectively : *9 by '75 ; # 91 by '72. 



2. St. Aignan, Louiiiade Archipelago. A. S. Meek [C.]. 



