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rocky Grampian Range in Victoria, is not identical with the bird 

 inhabiting the luxuriant scrubs of the Bellenden-Ker Range in 

 tropical Queensland. No doubt ornithological students will agree 

 to separate the northern bird under the suggestive name of siih- 

 chrysops, with a wing-measurement of 2.9 inches, as against 3.2 

 inches for that of a typical chrysops. 



Piezorhynchus alecto (Temminck). 



Mr. White's enterprise has won yet another bird, which, although 

 known, is new for the continent. 



Although not altogether a surprise, it is interesting to discover 

 the New Guinea Shining Flycatcher at Cape York, where Mr. 

 White's specimens (j and $) were obtained. 



As the late Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, in the "Catalogue of Birds," 

 British Museum (vol. iv., p. 415), states: — "The Australian bird 

 {P. nitidiis) differs from P. alecto in possessing a m.uch longer and 

 thinner bill, while the females are thus contrasted — alecto, mantle 

 light chestnut, like the back ; nitidus, mantle dark ashy, shaded 

 with the purple colour of the head, and separating the latter from 

 the back, which is dark chestnut." 



Mr. Gregory Mathews, in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' 

 Club, No. clxxi., described last year a Shining Flycatcher from 

 the Cooktown district under the name P. nitidus wardelli, and 

 remarks the adult male differs from the typical P. nitidus in 

 " having a shorter and wider bill, the general colour deeper, and 

 the measurements slightly larger." 



While camped at Cardwell, August, 1885, I obtained a pair of 

 Shining Flycatchers (now in the National Museum, Melbourne), 

 which agrees with Mr. Mathews' Cooktown specimens so far as 

 the description of bill is concerned. 



Description of Eggs of Lesser Satin Bower-Bird 



(Ptilonorhynchus minor, Campbell). 



By H. L. White, R.A.O.U., Belltrees, N.S.W. 



{Published in "Bulletin No. 3 " of the R.A.O.U., 21/5/12.) 



Types.— Eggs oval in shape ; surface of shell slightly glossy, and 

 under the lens minute pittings like pin-pricks appear all over the 

 shell, thus rendering it slightly granular. Ground colour light 

 cream, beautifully blotched and spotted all over, particularly at 

 the larger ends, with reddish-brown, umber, purplish-grey and 

 slaty markings ; the last two colours appear as if beneath the 

 surface of the shell, and predominate in both eggs. The pair 

 measure in inches :—{a) 1.70 x i.io, {b) 1.68 x i.ii. 



Taken by Mr. Geo. Sharp, at Evelyn scrubs, Cairns district, 

 North Queensland, 26th November, 1908. 



Co-Types. — Eggs slightly more swollen than those of the type 



