12 BICiEIDiE. , 



Pardalotus quadragintus, Gould. 



Sand-l. V. p. 30 (1906). 

 Three eggs of the Forty-spotted Diamond-bird are spheroidal in 

 form, white, and slightly glossed. They measure from -59 to -b^ 

 in length, and from -5 to -51 in breadth. 



1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



2. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus PIPRISOM.A, Blyth. 



Piprisoma squalidum (Burt.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 6.) 



Piprisoma agile, Seavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 416; 1867, p. 430, pi. x.; Leffc/e, 



Birds Ceylon, p. 579 (1879). 

 PrionooWlus squalidus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 7d (i»S&) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. JEiersamml. -p. 84 (1899). __ ooo noom 



Piprisoma squalidum, Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, u. p. S8A (189U) ; 



id., ed. Sume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 277 (1890) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 32 (1906). 



The eggs of the Thick-billed Flower-pecker are of a regular oval 

 shape and slightly glossy. They are pale pink, and densely marked 

 with confluent blotches and clouds of chestnut-brown and lavender- 

 grey *. They measure from -6 to -63 in length, and from -45 to 

 •46 in breadth. 



1. Northern India, 24th February. Hume Coll. 



2. Maunhhum, 29th March {R. C. Crowley Bsquest. 



Beavan: Tristram Coll.). 

 2. Maunbhum, 18th April {R. C. B. : Crowley Bequest. 

 Tristram Coll.). 



Genus MELANOCHARIS, Sclater. 



Melanocharis striativentris, Salvad. 



(Plate I. fig. 18.) 



Melanooharis striativentris, Salvad. Ann. Mus, Civ. Oenov. (2) xiv. p. 150 

 (1894) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 33 (1906). 



An egg of Salvadori's Flower-pecker is of a broad oval shape 

 and devoid of gloss ; tho ground-colour is pinkish-white, blotched 



* Mr. Stuart Baker (Ibis, 1896, p. 350) has described the nests and eggs of 

 the closely allied P. modestum. 



