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breadth from '87 to -95. One exceptionally small egg from 

 Doorook measures 1*02 by -93 inch. 



2. Port Essington, N . Australia, 4th 



Dec. 

 2. Doolaloo, N. Queensland, 4th Jan. 



2. Doolaloo, 8th Jan. 



2. Doolaloo, 17th Jan. 



2. Doolaloo, 18th Jan. 



1. Doolaloo, 18th Jan. 



2. Doolaloo, 19th Jan. 



3. Doolaloo, 23rd Jan. 



2. Doolaloo, 24th Jan. 

 1. Doolaloo, 28th Jan. 



3. Doolaloo. 



1. Doorook, N. Queensland, 3rd 



March. 



2. Dawson River, Queensland, Oct. 



(A. J. North}. 



Gould Coll. 



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W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



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W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

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[P.]. 

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[P.]. 

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[P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Genus SPHECOTHERES, Vieill. 

 Sphecotheres maxillaris (Lath.). 



Sphecotheres maxillaris, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 467 (1865) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 224 (1877) ; Fitzgerald, Pr. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S. W. (2) ii. p. 970 (1887) ; North, Nests $ Eqgs Birds Austr. 

 p. 185. pi. xi. fig. 11 (1889) ; id. Sec. Austr. Mus. i. p. 113 (1891); 

 Campbell, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 82 (1901) ; North, Nests 

 # JEfff/s Birds Austr.' ' i. p. 81 (1902); Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 555 

 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 353 (1910). 



Three eggs of the Fig-bird resemble the greener forms of S.flavi- 

 ventris described below. They are pale greyish-green spotted with 

 chestnut, orange-brown, and pale purplish-red, the markings being 

 rather more numerous towards the larger end of the shell. They 

 measure respectively : 1-38 by -96 ; 1-36 by -9 ; and 1-32 by -9. 



3. East Queensland. 



T. Carter, Esq. [C.]. 



