58 MELIPHAGIDJS. 



1. New South Wales (E. P. Ramsay}. Gould Coll. 



2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



1. Dobroyd, N.S.W., May Crowley Bequest. 



(J. Ramsay : Tristram Coll.). 



2. Nr. Tass River, N.S.W. (/". ^. : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll}. 



2. Broadwood, N.S.W., 16th Nov. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 



3. South Australia. Gould Coll. 



Genus PHILEMON, Vieill. 

 Philemon citreigularis (Gould). 



Tropidorhynchus citreogularis, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 549 



(1865). 

 Philemon citreogularis, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 277 (1884) ; 



North, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 219 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 83 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests fy Eggs Austr. Birds, i. 



p. 435, pi. 15 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 94 (1906). 



Eggs of the Yellow- throated Friar-bird vary from a pointed to a 

 blunt oval shape and have some gloss. They are cream-colour : 

 one type is very distinctly and finely spotted with reddish-brown 

 or purplish-red and purplish-grey. The markings are everywhere 

 dense, but more so at the broad end than elsewhere. The other type 

 is very different, having the whole surface of the shell blotched, 

 clouded, and longitudinally streaked with light red and purplish- 

 grey, and are indistinguishable from certain blotched eggs of 

 Myzantha garrula. They measure from '95 to 1*02 in length, and 

 from '7 to -78 in breadth. 



2. Queensland. Gould Coll. 



3. Queensland. Gould Coll. 



1. Victoria. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Lower Murray River, Victoria, Crowley Bequest. 



15th Sept. (A. J. North). 



Philemon cockerelli, Scl. 

 (Plate III. fig. 12.) 



Philemon cockerelli, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 104 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. ix. p. 278 (1884) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 83 (1899) j 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 94 (1906). 



Eggs of Cockerell's Eriar-bird are of a long, somewhat pointed oval 

 form, and slightly glossy. The ground-colour is pinkish-white or 

 pale pinkish-brick-colour, finely spotted and blotched all over with 

 light red and violet-grey. In one example the blotches form a 

 heavy cap of purplish-red round the larger end. They much resemble 

 eggs of Tropidorhynchus subtuberosus, but are longer in shape. They 

 measure respectively 1-35 by -92, 1-4 by -9, 1-45 by '9, and 1-48 

 by -96. 



2. New Britain. Crowley Bequest. 



2. New Britain. Crowley Bequest. 



