Eggs oj certain Birds-of-Paradlse. 117 



Ptilorhis intehcedens. (Plate III. figs. A, 5.) 



Ptilorhis magnifica intercedens Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. 

 p. 488, pi. X. fig. 9 (1910) ; Brook, Ibis, 1911, p. 577. 



2. Moroka Mts., British New Guinea, 9th June, 1908. 

 Presented by IMr. Walter Goodfcllow. 



The identification of these eggs is certain, for the female 

 parent was caught on the nest by Mr. Goodfellow and is 

 now living in the aviaries of INlr. E. J. Brook at Hoddam 

 Castle, It twice attempted to breed there during th'^ 

 summer and autumn of 1911, but the two eggs were laid 

 from the perch and broken. This was a great disappointment 

 as the bird had constructed two fine nests before the second 

 pair of eggs were laid — one in a large bunch of birch twigs 

 in the inner aviary, and the other on a branch of a tree 

 covered with honeysuckle in the flight-aviary. 



As will be seen from the figures the specimens taken by 

 Mr. Goodfellow resemble the egg figured by Dr. Hartert, 

 which was taken in German New Guinea by Wahnes. 



The two eggs figured measure respectively l"4x'0Gaud 

 1'37 X "95 inches. 



Ptilorhis alberti. (Plate III. figs. 7 & 8.) 



CrasiAduphora ulberti Le Souef, Ibis, 1897, p. 394, text- 

 fig. 1 ; North, Nest & Eggs Birds Austr. i. p. 29 (1901). 



Ptilorhis alherti Campbell, Nests & Eggs Austr. Birds, i. 

 p. 76, pi. 6 (1901). 



Ptilorhis magnijica alberti Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 488 

 (1910). 



2. Somerset, Cape York, 23rd October, 1896 (//. G. 

 Barnard^. Received in exchange from Mr. D. Le Souef. 



The eggs here figured are those described by Mr. D. Le 

 Souef in 'The Ibis ^ for 1897. They were obtained at 

 Somerset, Cape York, on the 23id of October, 1896, by 

 Mr. H. G. Barnard, who was the first to find the nest and 

 eggs of this species. After Avaitiag for three hours he shot 

 the female when she returned to her eggs. Altogether 

 Mr. Barnard obtained no less than fourteen eggs of tnis 



