PACHYCEPHALA. 295 



The eggs of the Australian' Bell-bird are of an ordinary oval shape 

 and but slightly glossy. The majority are bluish white, spotted 

 with black and, in a minor degree, with slaty grey. Others are 

 pale blue, marked, chiefly at the broad end, with spots, scrawls, and 

 thick lines of black and lavender-grey. Examples measure from 

 1'09 to 1'15 in length, and from '78 to '85 in breadth. 



1. Australia (E. P. Seymour}. Crowley Bequest. 

 3. Australia. Gould Coll. 



2. West Australia, Sept. Gould Coll. 



1 . Cardington, Bell River, N.S.W., Crowley Bequest. 



25th Aug. (E. P. Ramsay: 

 Tristram Coll.). 



2. Liverpool, N.S.W., 12th Dec. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. North}. 



3. Ivanhoe, N.S.W., 13th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. N.}. 



Genus PACHYCEPHALA, Vig. $ Horsf. 

 Pachycephala torquata, Layard. 



Pachycephala torquata, Lctyard, Ibis, 1876, p. 146 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. viii. p. 201 (1883) j Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 303 (1903). 



An egg, which Layard did not authenticate satisfactorily, but 

 which he was of opinion might be referable to the Taviuni Thick- 

 head, is of a narrow, pointed oval shape, extremely glossy and of 

 a rufous-chocolate colour, with a broad band of very dark brown, 

 almost black, round the larger end. It measures 1*14 by '70. 

 This egg is quite unlike those of the other Pachycephaline birds 

 in the Collection, and must be considered very doubtful. 



1. Fiji Islands (E. L. Layard: Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.}. 



Pachycephala rosseliana, Hartert. 

 (Plate XIII. fig. 14.) 



Pachycephalu rosseliana, Hartert, Butt. B. O. C. viii. p. viii. (1898); 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 305 (1903). 



Two eggs of the Rossel-Island Thickhead, taken by Mr. Meek, 

 are of a very broad oval shape, approaching the spherical, and 

 moderately glossy. They are of a greyish-pink colour, spotted and 

 blotched with umber-brown and deep lavender. The markings are 

 fairly evenly distributed over the surface of the shell. They 

 measure respectively : '9 by '75 ; '91 by *72. 



2. St. Aignan, Louisiade Archipelago. A. S. Meek [C.]. 



