PSILOBHINTJg. — STBUTHIDEA. 503 



and without gloss. The ground is creamy-white, densely and 

 finely freckled all over with very small spots of umber-brown and 

 grey. It measures 1-39 by -95. 



1. Mexico (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Psilorhinus vociferus {Cabot). 



Corvus vociferus, Cabot, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 155 (1843). 



Psilorhinus mexicauus, Bmicard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 447. 



Psilorhinus mexicanus vociferus, Ridgxo. Birds Nerth Sr Middle Amer. 



iii. p. 303 (1904). 

 Psilorhinus vociferus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 626 (1909). 



Three eggs of the Yucatan Brown Jay are indistinguishable from 

 those of P. morio, but are somewhat glossy. One example has the 

 markings most dense at the broad end and some of the brown spots 

 are rather large in size. They measure respectively 1-35 by -97 ; 

 1-35 by -98 ; 1-32 by -92. 



2. Yucatan. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Valladolid, Yucatan {G. F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gau?ner). 



Genus STRUTHIDEA, Gould. 



Struthidea cinerea, Gould. 



Struthidea cinerea, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 472 (1865) j Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 140 (1877) ; NoHh, Nests ^ Eggs Birds A ustr. 

 p. 188, pi. viii. fig. 8 (1889) ; Campbell, Nests 8f Eggs Austr. Birds, 

 i. p. 63 (1901) ; North Nest Sf Eggs Birds Austr. i. p. 18 (1901) ; 

 Barnard, Emu, vii. p. 188 (1908) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 626 (1909) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 364 (1910). 



Eggs of the Apostle-bird or Grey Jumper are of an oval shape 

 and slightly glossy. The ground is white with a few distinct 

 scattered spots of brown of various shades or even black, and 

 underlying ashy-grey or lilac-grey, the markings being nearly 

 always round the larger end. They vary from 1-03 to 1-23 in 

 length, and from -75 to -9 in breadth. 



2. Queensland. Gould Coll. 



2. New South Wales, 18th Oct. Gould Coll. 



(J. Gould). 



3. Ivanhoe, N. S. Wales, 7th Sept. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 

 5. Dubbo, N. S.Wales, Oct. (^./.iV;). Crowley Bequest. 

 1. Gippsland, Victoria. F. A. Philbnck, Esq. [P.]. 



