296 



Pachycephala gutturalis (Lath.). 



Pachycephala pectoralis, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxix. fig. 16, 



a, b (1845-54). 

 Pachycephala gutturalis, Gould, Handb. Birch Austr. i. p. 207 (1865) ; 



Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 192 (1883); North, Nests $ Eggs 



Austr. Birds, p. 64, pi. xii. fig. 9 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 



p. 71 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests Sf Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 319, pi. 12 



(1901) ; Sharpe, Haml-l. iv. p. 306 (1903). 



The eggs of the White-throated Thickhead are of an ordinary 

 oval shape, occasionally pointed, and exhibiting a considerable 

 amount of gloss. They vary from cream-colour to pale brownish 

 buff, and are spotted and blotched with umber-brown and 

 purplish-grey. The markings are generally dense and confluent at 

 the broad end of the egg, where they form an irregular zone, but are 

 sparse elsewhere. Specimens measure from -87 to 1*01 in length, 

 and from '65 to *7 in breadth. 



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



2. South Australia (J.' Gould). Gould Coll. 



1. Dobroyde, N.S.W. (E. P. Ramsay : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.}. 



3. New South Wales (E. P. Ramsay} . G ould Coll. 



2. New South Wales, 31st Aug. Gould Coll. 



(E. P. JR.). 



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



3. Oakleigh, Victoria, 19th Sept. Crowlev Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 



2. Gippsland, Victoria, 14th Nov. Crowlev Bequest. 

 (A. J. N.). 



1 . Gippsland. F. A.Philbrick, Esq., K.C. [P.]. 



Pachycephala glanenra, Gould. 



Pachycephala elaucnra, Gould, Hanitb. Birds Austr. i. p. 209 (1865) : 



Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 194 (1883) ; North, Nests $ Eggs 



Austr. Birch, p. 66 (1889); Nehrk. Ent. Eiersamml, p. 71 (1899); 



Campbell, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 32'2 (1901); Sharpe, 

 Iland-l. iv. p. 30G (11)03). 



The eggs of the Grey-tailed Thickhead appear to be inseparable 

 from those of P. gutturalis. Pour examples measure respectively : 

 91 by -68 ; -96 by -7 : '97 by -7 ; 1 by -69. 



2. Tasmania (C. Gould}. Gould Coll. 



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



Pachycephala chlorura, Gray. 

 (Plate XIII. fig. 15.) 



Pachycephala chlorura, Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 272 ; Gadow, Cat. .Birds 

 B. M. viii. p. 194 (1883) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv, p. 306 (1903). ^ '- 



The eggs of the New Hebrides Thickhead in the Collection are 



