MYZOMELA. — ACANTHOEHrNCHtTS. 35 



Two eggs of the Sanguineous Honey-eater are of a blunt oval 

 shape and moderately glossy. They are white, marked round the 

 broad end with a well-defined zone of chestnut-brown and lavender 

 spots and small blotches. One specimen is also marked with a 

 few blackish specks on or near the zone. They measure respec- 

 tively : -57 by -45 ; -59 by -47. 



2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



BIyzomela nigra, Gould. 



Meliphaga nigra, Tkien. Fortpflanz. ges. Voff. tab. xvi. fig. 1 (1845-54). 

 Myzomela nigra, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 558 (1865) ; Gadow, 



Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 138 (1884) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. W. (2) i. p. 1151 (1886) ; NoHh, Nests | JEffffS Amtr. Birds, 



p. 223 (1889); Campbell, Nests %■ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 354 



(1901) ; Sharpe, JSand-l. v. p. 68 (1906). 



The eggs of the Black Honey-eater are of an oval shape and 

 nearly devoid of gloss. They are yellowish-bufi, marked round 

 the broad end with a broad indistinct zone of more or less confluent 

 specks of pale brownish-buff . Four examples measure respectively : 

 •55 by -47 ; :58 by -46 ; -63 by -46 ; -63 by -47. 



2. West Auslralin. Gould Coll. 



2. South Australia. Gould Coll. 



Myzomela obscura, Gould. 



Myzomela obscura, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 659 (1865) ; Gadow, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 143 (1884) ; Campbell, Nests Sf Eggs Austr. 

 Birds, i. p. 356, pi. 13 (1901); Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, p. 64; Sharpe, 

 Sandr-l. V. p. 70 (1906). 



An egg of the Dusky Honey-eater closely resembles that of 

 M. rubratra both in form and markings. It measures '7 by -52. 



1. Prince of Wales Island, Torres Earl of Crawford [P.]. 



Straits (M. /. Nicoll). 



Genus ACANTHORHYNCHUS, Qould. 

 Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris {Lath.). 



Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 551 



(1865) ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 144 (1884) ; Noi-th, Nests 



& Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 220, pi. xii. fig. 20 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 79 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests §■ Eggs Austr. Bvrds, i. 



p. 358 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 71 (1906). 



The eggs of the Spine-bill are of a pointed oval form and slightly 



glossy. They are cream-colour or pale creamy-bu£E, marked, almost 



entirely at the broad end, with spots and smaU blotches, which 



in some specimens are entirely pale chestnut, and in others rich 



purplish-red and lavender. They measure from "7 to '76 in length, 



and from -51 to -53 in breadth. 



2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



2 Roseville, N.S.W., 17th November. A. J. North, Esq. [P.]. 



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