10 ASHBY — Description of Eggs of Eyramytis Goyderi Gld. 



Grallina cyanoleuea — Murray Magpie. — Bird sitting in nest 

 overhanging River Start. 



Neochalcitcs basalis mcllori — Narrow-billed Bronze Cuckoo. 

 — A fresh egg found built into the lining of a Malurus jnest. 



Hirundo neoxena — Welcome swallow. — Two nests built on 

 overhanging cliff. 



Lagenoplastes arid — Bottle swallow. — numerous nests un- 

 der a stone bridge and on cliffs of River Start. 



Ptilotula penicillata whitei — Greenie. — Two nests, one with 

 young, one building. 



Melithreptus gularis loftyi — Black-chinned Honey-eater. — 

 Two nests, one building, one with bird sitting. 



Description of the Eggs of Eyramytis Goyderi Gld 

 previously undescribed. 



By Edwin Ashby. 



Eyramytis goyderi Gld., Syn. Amytomis goyderi. 



The Lake Eyre grass wren. , 



The nest, containing two eggs, with the parent birds was 

 obtained at Douglas Creek, near William Creek, Central Aus- 

 tralia, in January, 1913, by my friend, Mr. J. R. B. Love, to 

 whom I am indebted for this .opportunity of describing this 

 hitherto undescribed egg. 



Mr. Love was able to secure the parent birds. One is in 

 my collection, and the other in the Adelaide Museum. The 

 egg is in the collection of Mr. Love. Nest was placed in a blue- 

 bush close to the ground, domed, side entrance, and was 

 formed of blue-bush twigs and grasses. There were two eggs, 

 one broken, the other being the specimen now described. The 

 egg is thick oval in form, shell, close grained, smooth and 

 slightly lustrous, pinkish cream ground colour, thickly 

 sprinkled with small irregular-shaped spots and blotches of 

 orange brown, interspersed with blotches of a pale purplish 

 brown, which become confluent at the larger end, forming a 

 well-defined zone or cap. Length 21 mm. x 15 mm. 



In comparing this egg with an egg of Cinclorhamphns 

 eruralis cantatoniis (J Id. I find the ground colour in A. Goyderi 



