260 MUSCICAPID^. 



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

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

 specimens (the third damaged) measure respectively : '62 by '47 ; 

 69 by -47. 



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



Petrceca rhodinogaster (Drop.). 

 (Plate VII. fig. 13.) 



Erythrodryas rhodinogaster, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 276 

 (1865) ; North, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 101 (1889). 



Petrceca rhodinogastra, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 170 (1879) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml p. 24 (1899); Campbell, Nests 8r Eggs 

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



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

 resembles the eggs of P, leggei and P. phoenicea. It is probably 

 one of the specimens of which Gould wrote (I. 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, arid 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). Growl ey Bequest. 



Petrceca rosea, Gould. 



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

 Petrceca rosea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 170 (1879) ; Campbell, 



Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 139, pi. 8 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 



iii. p. 221 (1901). 



The eggs of the Rose-breasted Robin 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 respectively : '65 by -48 ; -67 by *47; "65 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 '68 by -52. 



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

 1. Victoria. Govt. of Victoria [P.J. 



Petrceca goodenovii ( Vig. fy Horsf.). 

 (Plate VII. fig. 14.) 



Petroica goodenovii, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 280 (1865). 

 Petrceca goodenovii, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 171 (1879) j -North, 



