114 TTJRDID^E. 



a narrow oval form and glossy. It is pale greenish blue, sparingly 

 freckled all over the surface with reddish brown and lilac-grey, 

 rather more densely at the larger end. It measures 1'15 by '79. 



1. S.E. New Guinea. Mr. E. Weiske [C.]. 



Oreocichla lunulata (Lath.}. 



Oreocincla lunulata, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 439 (1865). 



Geocichla lunulata, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 155 (1881) ; North, 

 Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, p, 171 (1889) ; Seebohm, Mon. Turdida, 

 i. p. 25 (1898); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 34 (1899); Campbell, 

 Nests 8f Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 184, pi. 9 (1901). 



Oreocichla lunulata, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 137 (1903). 



The eggs of the South-Australian Ground-Thrush in the Collec- 

 tion are, for the most part, of an elongated oval form and fairly 

 glossy. The ground-colour is greyish green, thickly freckled and 

 blotched with two shades of reddish brown over the whole surface, 

 the markings being, however, rather more dense in some specimens 

 at the broader end. They measure from 1*24 to 1*41 in length, and 

 from -90 to -92 in breadth. 



1. New South Wales. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Blue Mts., N.S.W., 28th Nov. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 

 2. Gippsland, Victoria, 20th June Crowley Bequest. 



(A.J. N). 

 2. Mordialloc, Victoria, August. W. Kadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.I. 

 2. Tasmania (E. D. Atkinson). Crowley Bequest. 



Oreocichla mollissima (Blyfh). 

 (Plate VI. fig. 13.) 



Geocichla mollissima, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 159 (1881) ; id. 



Mon. Turdida, i. p. 29 (1898) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 35 



(1899). 

 Oreociucla mollissima, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 154 (1890) ; 



id. ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 108 (1890) j Osmaston, 



Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 472 (1898). 

 Oreocichla mollissima, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 137 (1903). 



The eggs of the Plain-backed Mountain-Thrush in the Collection 

 are of an elongated and narrow oval shape, one of them unusually 

 so, and exhibit little gloss. They are stone-coloured, thickly set 

 with spots, freckles, and moderate-sized blotches, especially at the 

 broad end, of two shades of dark reddish brown and underlying 

 lavender-grey. The markings are more or less connected over the 

 entire surface of the egg, but do not obscure the ground-colour. 

 The specimens measure respectively : T32 by -89 ; 1-4 by -88. 



2. Native Sikhim, June. Hume Coll. 



