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Two eggs of the Grey-winged Honey-eater in the Collection are 

 almost elliptical in shape and slightly glossy. They are pinkish- 

 white, thickly mottled with pale reddish-brown, and feebly marked 

 at the broad end with a few blotches of pale lavender. They 

 measure respectively : *95 by '7 ; "95 by '72. 



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



Genus MELIPOTES, Sclat. 



Melipotes fumigatus, A. B. Meyer. 



(Plate II. fig. 7.) 



Melipotes fumigatus, Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. iii. p. 22 (1886) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 76 (1906). 

 Melipotes atriceps, Grant, Evil. B. O. C. v. p. xiv (1895). 



Two eggs of the Black -headed Honey-eater are of a regular oval 

 form and devoid of gloss ; they have the ground-colour pale pinkish- 

 white, and the markings, which are mostly concentrated round the 

 larger end so as to form a cap, take the form of rather faint purplish- 

 red blotches, more or less confluent towards the larger end. They 

 measure respectively 1*22 by '81 and T07 by '79. 



] . S.E. New Guinea. Mr. E. Weiske [0.1. 



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



Genus MELIRRHOPHETES, A. B. Meyer. 



Melirrhophetes batesi, Sharpt. 



(Plate II, fig. 12.) 



Melirrhophetes batesi, Sharpe in Gould's Birds N. Guinea, iii. pi. 35 

 (1886) ; id., Hand-l. v. p. 77 (1906). 



A damaged egg of Bates' Honey-eater appears to have been of 

 a regular oval form and very slightly glossed. It has the ground- 

 colour salmon-buff, becoming rather more intense towards the larger 

 end, where it forms a zone, which is also indistinctly marked with 

 spots of faint purplish-red. It measures 1'22 by '86. 



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



Genus STIGMATOPS, Gould. 



Stigmatops ocularis (Gould). 



Meliphag-a ocularis, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. xvi. fig. 3 



(1845-54). 

 Stigmatops ocularis, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 500 (1865) ; 



North, Nests 8f Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 198, pi. xiii. fig. 17 (1889) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 78 (1906). 

 Sti^niatops subocularis, Gould, torn. cit. p. 501. 

 Glyciphila ocularis, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 213 (1884) [part.] ; 



