112 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Graiit -o?* the 



Paler egg. — Ground-colour creamy, streaked all over 

 Avith long narrow streaks of cliestuut-broAvu interspersed 

 Avitli similar underlying streaks of mauve. The pale ground- 

 colour is a clear cream^ not saturated with pale cinnamon as 

 in the pale eggs of P. augvMce-victor'ue. Length 36'5 mm. ; 

 breadth ^6 mm. 



Darkkr egg. — Ground-colour clear rosy cinnamon, 

 streaked rather more closely with rufous streaks and under- 

 lying mauve streaks. The streaks also stop short towards 

 the smaller pole. Length 3G'5 mm. ; breadth 25-5 mm. 



Sattelberg, German New Guinea (Keysser coll.). 



In an article on New Guinea Birds (' Notes from the 

 Lcydeu JMuseum,' xxx. pp. 225-214), Dr. Van Oort 

 enumerates three s})ecimens of Pteridophura alberti Meyer, 

 two from the Tabi or Gautier Mts., east of the Ambernoh 

 lliver (jNIambarano), and one from Kwatisori, South Coast of 

 Geelvink Bay. These probably all came from the interior, 

 and were bought by their respective donors from the native 

 traders at the localities cited. If, however, they really were 

 shot by or handled in the flesh by their donors, it would go 

 to prove that P. alberti has a similarly wide range to Loria 

 loricE and ParijplLe})]iorys duivenhadei — a fact I strongly doubt, 

 as in such case we should have received examples many years 

 before they actually did arrive. 



V. — On the Er/c/s of certain Birds-of- Paradise. 

 By W. II. Ogilvie-Gkant, M.IS.O.U. 



(Plate III.) 



In the seventeenth volume of the ' Novitates Zoological,' 

 issued in 1910, Dr. Hartert has published an account of the 

 fine collection of eggs of Birds-of~Paradise and Bower-Birds 

 in the Tring Museum. The value of the paper is greatly 

 enhanced by a beautiful coloured plate shewing the eggs of 

 no less than twenty-one ditl'ei'cut species; several are figured 



