180 Mr. R. Hall on Birds 
this Snipe and shot the parent bird. Later he found three 
more, one at the Monastery (65° 40' N. lat.) and the other 
two on the tundra. Two of these four nests contained 
four eggs each and the others only two. The eggs he 
describes as differing considerably from those of Gallinago 
coelestis, in being larger, in having the ground-colour as 
in eggs of Gallinago major, and in being much more richly 
marked, the spots being in almost all cases very profuse at 
the larger end and in some cases confluent. The measure- 
ments of these eggs were 1 -59 by 124, 1*61 by 1'12, 1"66 
by 1'2, and 1*74 by 1'18 inches respectively. Mr. Popham 
has also given (Ibis, 1898, p. 514) some particulars of the 
habits of the bird, which I need not repeat here. On his 
third visit to the Yenesei River in 1900 he took four "more 
nests of this Snipe. 
On Plate Yl. I have figured four of the eggs, in order 
to shew the variations as clearly as possible. These were 
all taken on the Yenesei. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. 
Figs. 1 & 2. Eggs of Chettusia leiicura, from Transcaspia. 
3-6. Eggs of Gallinayo stenura, from the Yenesei. 
Fig. 3. From clutch No. 352. June 26th, 1897. 
4. „ „ No. 495. May 25th, 1900. 
5. „ „ No. 178. May 29th, 1897. 
6. „ „ No. 497. June 27th, 1900. 
XIII. — On a Collection of Birds from Western Australia. 
Ey Robert Hall. 
[Concluded from p. 143.] 
34. Melithreptus chloropsis. Western Lunulated 
Honey-eater. (HalFs Key, p. 38.) 
A, B, C. Ad. sk. Sept. 25th, 26th, and 27th, 1899. 
Denmark. 
D. Young. 
These specimens differ decidedly, in so far as the eye- 
region is concerned, from all those previously referred to. 
The question that has interested us most of late is whether 
