508 CORVID^. STREPEKIDiE. 



Two eggs of the Dwarf Ground-Chough are of a rather long and 

 somewhat pointed oval shape, slightly glossy and pure white. They 

 measure -91 by -62 and -88 by -62. 



2. Koko-nor, Eastern Tibet {Roth- Crowley Bequest. 

 schild Coll.). 



Family STEEPERID^. 



Genus STREPERA, Lesson. 



Strepera graculina {White). 



(Plate XXII. fig. 9.) 



Strepera graculina, Gould, Handh. Birds Austr. i. p. 168 (1865) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 67 (1877) ; North, Nests Sr Eggs Birds Austr. 

 p. 55 (1889) ; Campbell, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 58 (1901) ; 

 North, Nests ^ Eggs Birds Austr. i. p. 8 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 

 p. 629 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiei-samml. p. 364 (1910). 



Two eggs of the Pied Crow-Shrike are of a broad oval form, 

 and slightly pointed towards the smaller end. The ground is dull 

 greyish-pink, rather sparingly spotted with umber-brown and 

 lilac-grey of several shades. In one egg the markings are more 

 numerous round the larger end and form an ill-defined wreath. 

 They measure respectively : 1'69 by 1-21 and 1-65 by 1'22. 



2. Liverpool, New South Wales, Oct. Crowley Bequest. 

 (A. J. North). 



Strepera arguta, Gould. 



Strepera arguta, Gould, Sandb. Birds Austr. i. p. 171 (1865) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 59 (1877) ; North, Nests §• Eggs Birds 

 Austr. p. 57 (1889) ; Campbell, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 59 

 (1901) ; North, Nests ^ Eggs Birds Austr. i. p. 10, pi. B i, fig. 9 

 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 629 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 364 (1910). 



Four eggs believed to be those of the Hill Crow-Shrike are much 

 like eggs of S. graculina in having the ground-colour greyish-pink, 

 but the markings are in the form of scattered rounded chocolate- 

 coloured spots, with blurred edges and minute dots of the same 

 colour ; there is also an indistinct tracery of pale chocolate-pink 

 smears and lines, more apparent in some of the eggs than in others. 

 They measure respectively: 1-68 by 1-15: 1-62 by 1'17: 1-59 by 

 1-14; and 1-56 by 1-14. 



A fifth egg is much smaller, and has the ground-colour greyish- 

 pink, with spots and small blotches of burnt-sienna and bluish- 

 grey, most of the markings being rather faint. It measures 1-49 

 by 1-06. 



5. [Tasmania.] Crowley Bequest, 



