298 LANIID.E. 



1. Australia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 3. Dawson River, Queensland, 17th Crowley Bequest. 



Oct. (North Coll}. 



2. West Australia, 4th Oct. Gould Coll. 



2. West Australia. Gould Coll. 



3. New South Wales (E. P. Ramsay). Gould Coll. 

 3. New South Wales, Oct. Gould Coll. 



1. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



2. New South Wales (J. Gould - Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



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



Tristram Coll.). 



3. Liverpool, N.S.W., 21st Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 



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



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



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



Pachycephala olivacea, Vig. $ fforsf. 



Pachycephala olivacea, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 216 (1865) ; 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 212 (1883) ; North, Nests Sf Eggs 

 Austr. Birds, p. 68, pi. viii. fig- 11 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 71 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 326, pi. 12 

 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 309 (1903). 



Three eggs of the Olivaceous Thickhead in the Collection are of 

 an oval shape, inclining to the biconical, the broader end being 

 somewhat sharply pointed. They are slightly glossy and cream- 

 coloured, sparingly spotted and blotched with dark reddish brown 

 or umber-brown and lavender. The markings are disposed chiefly 

 on the broad half. They measure 1*1 by '79 ; 1*13 by *77 ; 1'18 

 by '78 respectively. 



1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



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



Pachycephala xanthoprocta, Gould. 

 (Plate XIII. fig. 13.) 



Pachycephala xanthoprocta, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 211 (1893) ; 

 North, Nests Sf Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 409(1889); Nehrk. Kat. 

 Eiersamml p. 71 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 309 (1903). 



The eggs of the Norfolk Island Thickhead in the Collection are 

 of a rather broad oval form and slightly glossy. They are of a 

 pale creamy-buff colour, thickly mottled and spotted over the 

 broader half with umber-brown and lavender-grey. The smaller 

 half of the egg is comparatively free of markings. Two examples 

 measure respectively : 1 by *7 ; '95 by *7. 



2. Norfolk Island. Gould Coll. 



