324 BIT1 ID.K. fKinillll).!'.. 



Genus NEOSITTA, Helhnayr. 



Neositta chrysoptera (Lath.). 



Sitlella chrysoptera, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. G09 (I860) ; Gadow, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 360 (1883); North, Nests $ Eggs Austr. 

 Birds, p. 240 (1889); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 7."i (1899); 

 Campbell, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 237, pi. 13 (1901 ). 



Neositta chrysoptera, Sharpe, Iland-l. Lv.p. 351 (1903). 



The eggs of the Orange-winged Creeper are of an ordinary oval 

 form and slightly glossy. They are bluish- white, prof usely marked 

 with spots and small blotches of dark slaty-brown and pale slaty- 

 grey. Three examples measure respectively : 'Ob by 51 ; '65 by 

 ■51; -60 by -51. 



3. New South Wales, Dec. Gould Cell. 



(E. P. Bamsag). 



Neositta pileata (Gould). 

 (Plate XIV. fig. 17.) 



Sittella pileata, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. \. p. 612 (1865); Gadow, 



Cut. Bints B. 31. viii. p. 3U2 (lss:',) ; Xorth, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. W. 2nd ser. ii. p. 409 1 1887); id. Nests fy Eggs Austr. Hints. 

 p. 242 (1889); Campbell, Nests ty Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 340 

 (1901). 

 Neositta pileata, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 352 (1903). 



The eggs of the Black-capped Creeper resemble those of 

 N. chrgsoptera, but are rather larger and more coarsely blotched. 

 They measure from -6S to # 71 in length, and from '52 to •")<"> in 

 breadth. 



5. South Australia. Gould Coll. 



Family CERTI1IID/E. 



Genus CERTHIA, Linn. 

 Certhia familiaris, Linn. 



Certhia familiaris, Thien. Fortgflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xvii. fig. 10, a-c 



(1845-54); Baedeker, Pier Eur. !'<;</. tab. 43. tig. 2 (ls.V> 63); 



Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 243, pi. lxii. fig. ii (1856); 



Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 208; Dresser, Birds Eur, Hi. p. I!'". (1874) ; 



Gadow, Cat. Birds li. Jf. viii. p.: 323 ( L883); Seebohm, Brit. Hints. 



i. p. 512, pi. 11 (1883) ; id, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 217, pi. 54. tig. 5 



1 L896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 353 I L903). 

 Ceit liia brachydactyla, BaedeJeer, torn. cit. tab. 13. fig. 3. 

 ( Vrihia costi.e, Baedeker, torn. cit. tali. 43. tig. 4. 



The eggs of the Common Creeper are of a pointed oval shape and 

 slightly glossy. They are white or pale cream-colour, speckled and 



spotted with rusty reddish brown and underlying lavender. In 



