LA.LAGE. DIAFUOKOPTERTJS. 301 



2. Labuan, Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 



2. Labuan. Sir Hugh Low [0.]. 



2. Philippine Islands, llth May Crowley Bequest. 

 (Moseley). 



Lalage pacifica (Gm.). 

 (Plate IX. fig. 20.) 



Lalage terat, Layard, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 502. 



Lalage pacifica, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 97 (1879) ; Nehrk. Kat. 

 Eiersamml. p. 23 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 23 (1901). 



The eggs of the Pacific Cuckoo-Shrike in the Collection are of a 

 regular oval shape and but very slightly glossy. They are of a 

 bluish-green colour, thickly marked with streaks and small blotches 

 of umber-brown and lilac-grey. They measure respectively : '9 

 by -7 ; -88 by -63. 



2. Fiji Islands. Crowley Bequest. 



Lalage leucomelaena (Vig. $ fforsf.). 



Canipephaga leucomela, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 203 (1865). 



Lalage leucomelsena, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 106 (1879) ; North, 

 Nests Sc Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 77 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml 

 p. 23 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 104. pi. 7 

 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 305 (1901). 



An egg of the Black-and-White Cuckoo-Shrike in the Collection 

 is of a somewhat pointed oval shape and moderately glossy. It is 

 of a pale bluish-green colour, marked, chiefly over the broad end 

 where a large cap is formed, with deep brownish chestnut and lilac. 

 It measures -82 by '6. 



1. Australia. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus DIAPHOROPTERUS, Oberh. 



Diaphoropterus leucopygius, Gould. 



Symmorphus leucopygius, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 109 (1879) ; 



North, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 408 (1889). 

 Diaphoropterus leucopygius, Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 305 (1901). 



The eggs of the Norfolk-Island Cuckoo-Shrike closely resemble 

 the eggs of Lalage tricolor. They are dull green, profusely blotched 

 and streaked with umber-brown and pale underlying grey. Two 

 specimens measure respectively : '84 by *65 ; '88 by *7. 



2. Norfolk Island. Gould Coll. 



