274 urscicAPiDjE. 



Genus TROCHOCERCUS, Cah. 



Trochocercus bourbonnensis (P. L. S. Mull.). 



(Plate VIII. fig. 15.) 



Tcliitrea boibonica, E. Neicton, Ibis, 1861, p. 271. 



Ti-ocbocercus borbouicus, Sharpc, Cat. Birds L'. M. iv. p. ,'')02 (1879). 



Trocbocercus bourbounensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 251 (1901). 



The sole egg of the Bourbon Flycatcher in the Collection is of a 

 broad oval shape and devoid of gloss. It is cream-coloured, blotched, 

 almost entirely at the broad end, with lilac-red and lilac-grey. It 

 measures '77 by -SO. 



1. Mam-itius, 10th Dec. {E. Newton). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus RHIPIDURA, Virj. Sf Horsf. 



The eggs of the different species of Fantail Flycatchers, although 

 varying individually, are of much the same general character 

 throughout. 



They are of a somewhat pointed oval shape and exhibit little or 

 no gloss. The ground-colour varies from pure white to creamy 

 white and yellowish buff, and the markings, consisting of si)ecks, 

 Bpots and small blotches, are of a greyish brown, olive, pale rufous, 

 and lavender colour. In the great majority of specimens, the 

 markings are chiefly conlined to a well-defined zone round the 

 broad end and they are very sparse elsewhere, and in many respects 

 the eggs resemble those of many species of Shrikes. In a com- 

 paratively small number of specimens the zone is imperfect or ill- 

 defined, the markings being spread over the whole shell. The 

 specimens figured (Plate Vlll.) indicate some of the types of 

 coloration amongst the eggs of these Flycatchers. 



Rhipidura flabellifera {Gm.). 



Rhipidura flabellifera, Potts, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. ii. p. (13 (18G9) : iii. 

 p. 77 (1870) ; Slunye, Cat. Birds U. M. iv. p. 308 (1879) ; Ihiller, 

 Birds New Zeal. 2iid ed. i. p. 69 (1888) ; McLean, Ibis, 1892, p. 252 ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. i. p. 28 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 252 

 (1901). 



The eggs of the New Zealand Pied Fantail Flycatcher resemble 

 those oi R. nigritoi-quis (Plate VIII. fig. 19). Specimens measure 

 from -6 to -05 in length, and from -47 to -52 in breadth. 



3. New Zealand. T. H. Potts, Esq. [P.]. 



2. New Zealand. II. Wharton, Esq. [P.]. 



1. Otago, New Zealand, Nov. {E. P. Crowley Eequest. 



Seymour). 



1. Otago, Dec. [E. P. S.). Crowley Bequest, 



