MICEOCOIUX. — MACEOCOEAX. 475 



Genua MICROCOEAX, SJiarpe. 

 Microcorax jamaicensis (Gmel.). 



Corvua jamaicensis, de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, p. 122 (1839), pi. xxxii. 



fig. 23 (1855) ; Ridgw. Birds North 8f Middle Amer. iii. p. 277 



(1904). 

 Microcorax jamaicensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 48 (1877)- 



id., Hand-l. y. p. 601 (1909). 



Four eggs of the Jamaican Crow resemble those of Corvus comix. 

 They measure respectively : 1-73 by 1-23: 1-73 by 1-1 : 1-65 bv 

 1-12; and 1-6 by 1-12. 



4. Jamaica. Rev. Barham Zincke [P.]. 



Genus PHYSOCORAX, Bonop. 

 Physocorax moneduloides, Less. 



rhysocorax moneduloides, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 60 (1877) ; 

 E. L. Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 338 ; E. L. lif E. L. C. Layard, Ibis, 

 1883, p. 620; Wiglesw. Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1891, no. 6, p. 46 : Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 602 (1909) ; Kehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 359 (1910). 



Two eggs of the New Caledonian Crow are much like those of 

 Trypanocorax frugilegus in shape, colour, and markings. They are 

 fairly glossy and the ground is pale greenish-blue, spotted and 

 blotched all over with two shades, of umber-brown and underlying 

 lavender. They measure 1-51 by 1-04, and 1-57 by 1-07. 



2. Moindou, New Caledonia, 20th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 

 {E. L. Layard: Tristram Coll.). 



Genus MACROCORAX, Sharjie. 



Macrocorax fuscicapillus (Gray). 



Macrocorax fuscicapillus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 51 (1877); 

 Salvad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 488 (1881) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 602 

 (1909). 



Two eggs, believed to be those of the Great-hilled Crow, are 

 much like some eggs of Trypanoeoraoc frugilegus. They are of a 

 long pointed oval shape, almost pyriform, and without gloss. The 

 ground is pale greenish-white, heavily spotted at the broad end 

 and sparingly elsewhere with darker and lighter umber-brown and 

 underlying lavender-grey. They measure respectively : 1'81 by 

 1-25, and 1-75 by 1-28. 



These eggs, purchased at Stevens's Sale Rooms in 1862, were 

 sold as being those of Manucodia atra, which they certainly are not. 



2. Mysol. Old Collection. 



