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Genus TROCHOCERCUS, Cab. 



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



(Plate VIII. fig. 15.) 



Tchitrea borbonica, E. Neivton, Ibis, 1861, p. 271. 



Trochocercus borbonicus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 302 (1879). 



Trochocercus bourbonnensis, 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 '59. 



1. Mauritius, 10th Dec. (E. Netvton). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus RHIPIDURA, Vig. $ 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 specks, 

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

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

 markings are chiefly confined 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 VIII.) 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. 63 (1869) : iii. 

 p. 77 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 308 (1879) ; Buller, 

 Birds Neio Zeal 2nd ed. i. p. 69 (1888) ; McLean, Ibis, 1892, p. 2f)2 ; 

 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 of R. nigritorquis (Plate VIII. fig. 19). Specimens measure 

 from '6 to '65 in length, and from -47 to *52 in breadth. 



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



2. New Zealand. H. Wharton, Esq." [P.]. 



1. Otago, New Zealand, Nov. (E. P. Crowley Bequest. 



Seymour}. 



1. Otago, Dec. (E. P. &). Crowley Bequest. 



