LOPnOKHINA. AMBLYOENIS. 451 



Genus LOPHORHINA, VieiU. 

 Lophorhina minor, Ramsay. 



Lophorhina superba minor, Ramsay, Pvoc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W- x. p. 242 



(1885). 

 Lophorhiua minor, Sharpe, Monogr. Paradis. Sf Ptilon. ii. p. 41, pi. xxiii. 



(1895); id., Hand-l. v. p. 683 (1909); Ogilvie-Orant, iijs, 1912, 



p. 116, pi. iii. fig. 6. 

 Lophorina superba minor, Rartei-t, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 487, pi. x. figs. 22, 



23 (1910). 



An egg of the Lesser Superb Bird-of-Paradise is of a regular 

 oval shape, somewhat compressed at the smaller end, and dis- 

 tinctly glossy. The groand is pale brownish-cream- colour, thickly 

 and finely spotted and dotted all over the shell with pale yellowish- 

 brown and heavily marked round the broader end "with longitudinal 

 streaks of vandyke-brown and dark lilac-grey, the latter being more 

 or less confluent. It measures 1'24 by '85. 



Two eggs figured and described by Dr. Hartert agree in size and 

 general appearance with the above ; but the longitudinal markings 

 are distributed all over the shell. One has the ground-colour 

 brownish-buff and the brownish-grey and pale brown markings 

 rather faint; the other has the ground cream^colour, an4 the 

 reddish-brown and bluish-grey markings much stronger. 



1. Kagi, nr. Mt. Victoria, 6000 ft., Oapt. F. R. Barton [P.]. 

 Owen Stanley Range, 



Genus AUBLYORNIS, Blliot. 

 Amblyornis inornatus (Schl.). 



Amblyornis inornata, Becrari, Ann. Mus. Oiv. Genon. ix, p. 382 (3879) ; 

 Gould, Birds New Guinea, i. pi. 46(18/9); Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. vi. p. 394 (1881) ; id., Monogr. Paradio. Sf Ptilon. ii. p. 51 

 (1893) ; 'id., Hand-L v. p. 584 (1909), 



An egg of the Gardener Bower-bird is of a narrow oval shape 

 and moderately glossy. It is of a uniform cream-colour, and 

 measures 1"65 by 1'09. 



1. S.E. New Guinea. Herr Weiske [0.]. 



Amblyornis subalaris, Sharpe. 



Amblyornis subalaris, Gould, Birds New Guinea, i. pi. 47 (1886) ; Sharye, 

 Monogr. Paradis. 8^ Ptilon. ii. p. 55 (^1894) ; id., Hand-l. v. p. 684 

 (1909). 



An egg of the Orange-crested Bower-bird is of a regular oval 

 shape and moderately glossy. It is of a uniform cream-colour, 

 and measures 1"6 by 1-11. 



1. S.E. New Guinea. Herr Weisko [0.]. 



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