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Genus CYMBORHYNCHUS, Vigors. 



Cymborhynclms macrorhynchus (Gm.). 

 (Plate II. fig. 19.) 



Cymborhynchus macrorhynchus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 264; Scl. Cat, 

 Birds B. M. xiv. p. 468 (1888) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs Ind. 

 Birds, ii. p. 294 (1890) ; Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i'ii. p. 7 

 (1895) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 147, taf. iv. fig. 44 (1899) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 3 (1901). 



The eggs of the Black-and-Red Broadbill appear to be of three 

 types. In the commonest type they vary from cream-colour to 

 rich buff, and are thickly and coarsely mottled with dull chestnut 

 and lavender. In another they resemble the second type of egg of 

 Earylcemus javanicus, being white, spotted and blotched with slaty- 

 black and slaty-grey, the markings at the broad end being denser 

 than elsewhere and more or less confluent. In the third type, of 

 which there is only one specimen in the Collection, the egg is of a 

 plain bluish-white colour. This example is said to have been found 

 in a nest together with two eggs of the first or common type. 

 Specimens measure from 1'99 to 1*2 in length, and from *7 to '78 

 in breadth. 



2. Kussoom, Malay Peninsula, 4th Hume Coll. 



June ( W. Damson fy J. Darling}. 



4. Kussoom, 4th June (W. 2). $ Hume Coll. 

 J. D.). 



3. N.W. Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 

 3. N.W. Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.I. 

 3. Baram, Sarawak. Dr. Charles Hose [P.]. 



Order M EN U RI FORM ES. 

 Family MENURID.E. 



Genus MENURA, Davies. 



The eggs of the Lyre-birds vary from a regular oval to an ellip- 

 tical shape. The shell is somewhat rough in texture, slightly 

 glossy, and pitted with minute pores. 



The eggs of the three species of Lyre-birds are not distinguishable 

 by any character. They are of a darker or paler purplish-grey colour, 

 spotted and blotched, more densely at the broad end than elsewhere, 

 with brown, umber-brown, and lavender. 



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