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decide touching egg niatters, and ere we are far into the next 

 I hope (as it has been a life-long desire) to place before you a 

 complete work on "The Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds." 



(addendum.) 



THREE HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED EGGS OF 

 AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



By a. J. Campbell, F.L.S. 



(Read before Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 10th July, 1893.^ 



Cacatua sanguinea, Gould (Blood-stained Cockatoo). 



Locality — Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, 

 and interior of South Australia. 



Two eggs taken in the interior by Mr. A. A. Dombrain are 

 white, of a firm texture, and inclined to oval in shape. Dimen- 

 sions — (i) 373 X 2-8 cm., (2) 379 x 2-94 cm. 



Mr. Herbert Kenny, while at Cooper's Creek, wrote me: — "At 

 times the Blood-stained Cockatoos are to be seen in immense 

 flocks. In the breeding season you may see the blacks bringing 

 home their dilly bags full of eggs and young ones of all sizes, 

 from those just out of the shell to fully fledged ones." Mr. 

 Kenny sent me a set of eggs, with the following interesting data : 

 — " Eggs of Blood-stained Cockatoo taken from gum-tree on 

 Innaminka waterhole, Cooper's Creek, within a few yards of spot 

 where Burke the explorer perished. The nest contained four 

 eggs, which varied in size. Taken 17th August, 1890. Saw 

 blacks with eggs latter end of July." 



LiCMETis PASTiNATOR, Gould (Western Long-billed Cockatoo). 



Locality — Western and North-western Australia. Eggs white 

 and elongated in shape. Dimensions — (i) 4*9 x 3-1 cm., (2) 5*0 

 X 3 '06 cm. 



Mr. Tom Carter, of near Carnarvon, Western Australia, took 

 three eggs, on the 22nd September, 1888, from a hollow tree, but 

 he states these Cockatoos sometimes breed in holes in the rocks, 

 in gullies, and on one occasion (ist October, 1892), 25 miles 

 inland, he found the young of a Long-billed Cockatoo in a large 

 White Ant hillock, though gum-trees were fairly plentiful in the 

 neighbourhood. 



Trichoglossus porphyrocephalus, Diet. (Porphyrio-crowned 

 Lorikeet). 



Locality — New South Wales, Victoria, South and Western 

 Australia. 



An egg from a clutch of four taken from the hollow spout of a 

 gum-tree, near Mount Barker, South Australia, i8th September, 



