CINCLORHAMPHUS. TIMELIA. 29 



3. Port Lincoln, S. Aui Gould Coll. 



3. New South Wales. > Gould Coll. 



2. Victoria. " -' Govt, of Victoria [P.]. 



3. Victoria, 2Ist Nov. (/ -owley Bequest. 



1. Gippsland, Victoria.*-"-"— .-^ *, Philbrick, Esq., K.C. 



Cinclorhamplius mfescens ( Vlg. 6f Horsf.). 



Ptenoedus rufescens, Gould, Handi. Birds Austr. i. p. 397 (1865). 

 Cinclorhamphus rufescens, iSharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 500 (1883) ; 



North, Nests Sr Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 153 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eim-samml. p. 62 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests 8^ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. 



p. 276, pi. 11 (1901).; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 26 (1903). 



The eggs of the Australian Eufous Babbler vary from blunt to 

 pointed oval in shape, are moderately glossy and variable in size. 

 The ground-colour ranges from pinkish white to salmon-pink, and 

 this is thickly speckled and blotched with rich chestnut and 

 lavender. The markings are fine on some examples, coarse 

 and blotchy on others. The largest specimen in the Collection 

 measures -9 by "7 ; the smallest -8 by "6. 



Genus TIMELIA, Horsf. 



Timelia jerdoni, Wald, 



(Plate T. fig. 19.) 



Timelia pileata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii, p. 607 (1883) [part.]; 



Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 132 (1889) [part.]; id. ed. 



Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 90 (1889); Nehrk. Kat 



Eiersamml. p. 62 (1899). 

 Timelia jerdoni, Sharpe, Sand-l. iv. p. 26 (1903). 



The eggs of Jerdon's Eed-capped Babbler are normally of a 

 broad oval form, but a few are lengthened and some approach the 

 spheroidal shape. They have a considerable amount of gloss. 



