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Pardalotus quadragintus, Gould. 



Pardalotus quadragintus, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 160 (1865) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 62 (1885) ; North, Nests $ Eggs 

 Austr. Birds, p. 54 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 84 (1899) ; 

 Campbell, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 449 (1901) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l v. p. 30 (1906). 



Three eggs of the Forty-spotted Diamond-bird are spheroidal in 

 form, white, and slightly glossed. They measure from '59 to '62 

 in length, and from -5 to '51 in breadth. 



1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



2. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus PIPRISOMA, Blyih. 



Piprisoma squalidum (Burt.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 6.) 



Piprisoma agile, Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 416; 1867, p. 430, pi. x.; Legge, 



Birds Ceylon, p. 579 (1879). 

 Prionochilus squalidus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 73 (1885); 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 84 (1899). 

 Piprisoma squalidum, Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 382 (1890) ; 



id., ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 277 (1890) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 32 (1906). 



The eggs of the Thick-billed Mower-pecker are of a regular oval 

 shape and slightly glossy. They are pale pink, and densely marked 

 with confluent blotches and clouds of chestnut-brown and lavender- 

 grey *. They measure from *6 to *63 in length, and from *45 to 

 46 in breadth. 



1. Northern India, 24th February. Hume Coll. 



2. Maunbhum, 29th March (R. C. Crowley Bequest. 



Beavan: Tristram Coll.). 



2. Maunbhum, 18th April (It. C. B. : Crowley Bequest. 

 Tristram Coll.). 



Genus MELANOCHARIS, Sclater. 



Melanocharis striativentris, Salvad. 

 (Plate I. fig. 18.) 



.Melanocharis striativentris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (2) xiv. p. 150 

 (1894) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 33 (1906). 



An egg of Salvadori's Flower-pecker is of a broad oval shape 

 and devoid of gloss ; the ground-colour is pinkish-white, blotched 



* Mr. Stuart Baker (Ibis, 1896, p. 350) has described the nests and eggs of 

 the closely allied P. modestum. 



