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white, spotted and blotched, but almost entirely in a broad irregular 

 zone round the larger end, with pale brown and lavender. Two 

 specimens (the tliird damaged) measure respectively : -62 by -47 ; 

 •69 by -47. 



3. Norfolk Island. Dr. W. M. Crowfoot [P.]. 



Petrceca rhodinogaster {Brap.). 

 (Plate YII. fig. 13.) 



Erytlirodryas rhodinogaster, Gould, Ilandh. Birds Amtr. i. p. 276 

 (186o") ; North, Nests Sf Eijg>^ Austr. Birds, p. 101 (1889). 



Petroeca rhodinogastra, ShdrjK, Cut. Birds B. M. iv. p. 170 (1879) ; 

 Nehrh. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 24 (1899); CamphcU, Nests cS" E(/(/s 

 Austr. Birds, i. p. 138 (1901); Sharpe, Ilaml-l. iii. p. 221 (1901). ' 



The egg of the Pink-breasted Eobin in the Gould Collection 

 resembles the eggs of P. leggei and P. phcenicea. It is probably 

 one of the specimens of which Gould wrote (l. c.) : — " The eggs are 

 three in number, of a greenish white, thickly sprinkled with light 

 chestnut and purplish brown ; eight lines and a half long by six 

 and a half broad." It is now fractured, and cannot be measured 

 accurately. 



Two other examples are similar in colour, and measure re- 

 spectively : -72 by -58 ; -78 by -53. 



1. Tasmania ( Wilson). Gould Coll. 



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



Petrceca rosea, Gould. 



Erythrodryas rosea, Gould, Hundb. Birds Austr. i. p. 277 (1865). 

 Petroica rosea, Shcape, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 170 (1879) ; Camphell, 



Nests Sf E(j(/s Austr. Birds, i. p. 139, pi. 8 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 



iii. p. 221 (1901). 



The eggs of the Rose-breasted Eobin in the Collection are of 

 two types. Three examples, forming a clutch, are of an elongated 

 oval form and moderately glossy. They are white, speckled and 

 blotched, mostly at the broad end, with pale brown and lavender- 

 grey. They measure rcsjiectively : '65 by -48 ; -67 by -47 ; '05 by 

 •48. A fourth example is of a broad oval shape and moderately 

 glossy. It is white, profusely speckled all over with reddish-brown 

 and lavender, and measures 08 by •52. 



3. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P.]. 

 1. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P.], 



Petrceca goodenovii ( Vig. ^- Horsf.). 

 (Plate VII. fig, 14.) 



Petroica goodenovii, Gould, Handb. Birds yiustr. i. p. 280 (1805). 

 Potrceca goodenovii, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M, iv. p. 171 (1879) ; North, 



