48 MELIPHAGIDiB. 



Genus MELIORNIS, Gray. 



Meliornis pyrrhoptera {Lath.). 



Lichmera australasiana, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 493 (1865) ; 



North, Nests 8f Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 195, pi. xii. fig. 17 (1889). 

 Meliornis australasiana, Gadow, Cat. Birds^ B. M. ix. p. 252 (1884) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 82 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests Sf Eggs 



Austr. Birds, i. p. 411 (1901). 

 Meliornis pyrrlioptera, Sharps, Mand-l. v. p. 87 (1906). 



Eggs of the Cresoenfc Honey-eater are of a regular or rather 

 blunt oval form and very slightly glossy. The ground-colour is 

 pinkish-oream-eolour, speckled, chiefly about the broader end, with 

 purplish-red and lilac : in one egg the ground-colour shades into 

 bright chestnut-rufous towards the larger end. They measure 

 from "7 to -76 in length, and from -52 to -oS in breadth. 



1. Australia (A. J. Campbell). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Australia. T. Carter, Esq. [0.]. 



1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



2. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 

 .S. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 



Meliornis novae hoUandiae, Lath. 



Meliornis novae hoUandise, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 486 (1865) ; 

 Qadim, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 253 (1884) ; North, Nests 8r Eggs 

 Austr. Birds, p. 191 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 82 (1899) ; 

 Campbell, Nests Sr Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 412, pi. 14 (1901) : Sharps, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 87 (1906). 



Eggs of the New Holland Honey-eafcer are of a broad oval form 

 and moderately glossy. They are of a pinkish-cream-colour, very 

 distinctly speckled and spotted, chiefly at the broad end, with rich 

 purplish-red and lavender. They measure from -75 to -88 in 

 length, and from -B to "63 in breadth. 



1. Australia. W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



1. Australia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 3. Queensland. Gould Coll. 



2. New South "Wales. Gould Coll. 

 2. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



2. New South Wales (J. Gould). Crowley Bequest. 



2. New South Wales ( /. G. : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



2. Botany, N.S.W., 20th August Crowlev Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 



2. Canterbury, N.S.W., 12th April. A. J. North, Esq. fP 1 



1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



1. Tasmania. Crowley Bequest. 



