296 laniid.t:. 



Pachycephala gutturalis (Lath.). 



Pachycephala pectoralis, Tkien. Fortjpfianz, ges. Vbg. tab. xxix. fig. 16, 



a, b (1845-54). 

 Pachycephala gutturalis, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 207 (1865); 



Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 192 (1883); North, Nests # Eggs 



Austr. Birds, p. 64, pi. xii. fig. 9 (1889) : Nehrk. Eat. Eiersarmrd. 



p. 71 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests b Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 319, pi. 12 



(1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-L iv. p. 306'(l!i03). 



The eggs of the White-throated Thickhead are of an ordinary 

 oval shape, occasionally pointed, and exhibiting a considerable 

 amount of gloss. They vary from cream-colour to pale brownish 

 buff, and are spotted and blotched with umber-brown and 

 purplish-grey. The markings are generally dense and confluent at 

 the broad end of the egg, where they form an irregular zone, but are 

 sparse elsewhere. Specimens measure from *87 to 1*01 iu length, 

 and from -65 to - 7 in breadth. 



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



South Australia {J. Gould). I uld Coll. 

 Dobr ivde, N.S.W. (E. P. Ramsay : ( !rowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 

 New South Walea I /;. P. Ramsay). Gould Coll. 



New South "Walts, 31st Aug. Gould Coll. 



(E.P.R.). 



Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P.]. 



Oakleigh, Victoria, 19th Sept. Crowlev Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 



Gippsland, Victoria, 14th Nov. Crowley Bequest. 



(A.J.N.). 



Gippsland. F. A. Philbrick, Esq., K.C. [P.]. 



Pachycephala glaucura, Gould. 



Pachycephala glaucura, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 209 (1865): 



Gadow, Cat. Birds II. M. viii. p. 194 (1883); North, Nests ,\ 



Austr. Birds, p. 66 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 71 (1899); 



Campbell, Nests fy Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 322 (1901); Sharpe, 

 Hand-/, iv. p. 306 ( I ! 



The eggs of the Grey-tailed Thickhead appear to be inseparable 

 from those of P. gutturalis. Four examples measure respectively : 

 •91 by -68; "96 by -7 : -97 by u ; 1 by -69. 



2. Tasmania (C. Gould). Gould Coll. 



2. Tasmania (E. 7). Atkinson). Crowley Bequest. 



Pachycephala chlorura, Gray. 

 (Plate XIII. fig. 15.) 



Pachvcephala chlorura, Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 272; Gadow, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. viii. p. 194 (1883) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 306 (1903). 



The eggs of the New Hebrides Thickhead in the Collection are 



