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3. Port Lincoln, S. Australia. Gould Coll. 



3. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



2. Victoria. Govt. of Victoria [P.]. 



3. Victoria, 21st Nov. (A. J. North}. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Gippsland, Victoria. F. A. Philbrick, Esq., K.C. 



[P.]. 



Cinclorhamphus rufescens ( Vig. # Horsf.). 



Ptenoedus rufescens, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 397 (1865). 

 Cinclorhamphus rufescens, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 500 (1883) ; 



North, Nests fy Egys Austr. Birds, p. 153 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 62 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests $ Eyas Austr. Birds, i. 



p. 276, pi. 11 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 26 (1903). 



The eggs of the Australian Rufous Babbler vary from blunt to 

 pointed oval in shape, are moderately glossy and variable in size. 

 The ground-colour ranges from pinkish Avhite to salmon-pink, and 

 this is thickly speckled and blotched with rich chestnut and 

 lavender. The markings are fine on some examples, coarse 

 and blotchy on others. The largest specimen in the Collection 

 measures -9 by *7 ; the smallest -8 by -6. 



Coll.) 



2. Cardington, Bell Eiver, N.S.W. (E. Crowley Bequest. 



P. Ramsay: Tristram Coll). 



3. Fish River (E. P. R. : Tristram Coll). Crowley Bequest, 

 3. Toorak, Victoria, 1st Dec. (A. J. Crowley Bequest. 



North}. 



1. Adelaide, South Australia (E. P. Crowley Bequest. 

 Ramsay}. 



Genus TIMELIA, Horsf. 



Timelia jerdoni, Wold. 



(Plate I. fig. 19.) 



Timelia pileata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 507 (1883) [part.]; 



Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 132 (1889) [part.]; id. ed. 



Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 90 (1889) ; Nchrk. Kai. 



Eiersamml. p. 62 (1899). 

 Timelia jerdoni, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 26 (1903). 



The eggs of Jerdon's Red-capped Babbler are normally of a 

 broad oval form, but a few are lengthened and some approach the 

 spheroidal shape. They have a considerable amount of gloss. 



