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Genus MELIORNIS, Gray. 



Meliornis pyrrhoptera (Lath.}. 



Licbmera australasiana, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 493 (1865) ; 



North, Nests 8f Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 195, pi. xii. fig. 17 (1889). 

 Meliornis australasiana, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 252 (1884) ; 



Nehrk. Eat. Eiersamml p. 82 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests $ Eggs 



Austr. Birds, i. p. 411 (1901). 

 Meliornis pyrrhoptera, Sharps, Hand-l. v. p. 87 (1906). 



Eggs of the Crescent Honey-eater are of a regular or rather 

 blunt oval form and very slightly glossy. The ground-colour is 

 pinkish-cream-colour, speckled, chiefly about the broader end, with 

 purplish-red and lilac : in one egg the ground-colour shades into 

 bright chestnut-rufous towards the larger end. They measure 

 from '7 to '76 in length, and from '52 to '55 in breadth. 



1. Australia (A. J. Campbell}. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Australia. T. Carter, Esq. [0.]. 



1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



2. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 



Meliornis novae hollandiae, Lath. 



Meliornis novae hollandise, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 486 (1865) ; 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 253 (1884) ; North, Nests 8f Eggs 

 Austr. Birds, p. 191 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 82 (1899) ; 

 Campbell, Nests fy Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 412, pi. 14 (1901) j Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 87 (1906). 



Eggs of the New Holland Honey-eater are of a broad oval form 

 and moderately glossy. They are of a pinkish-cream-colour, very 

 distinctly speckled and spotted, chiefly at the broad end, with rich 

 purplish-red and lavender. They measure from "75 to "88 in 

 length, and from -6 to -63 in breadth. 



1. Australia. W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



1. Australia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 3. Queensland. Gould Coll. 



2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 

 2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



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



2. New South Wales (J. G. : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



2. Botany, N.S.W., 20th August Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 



2. Canterbury, N.S.W., 12th April. A. J. North, Esq. [P.]. 



1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



1. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 



