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 3. 



2. 

 2. 

 S. 

 3. 

 1. 

 2. 



Australia. 



Dawson River, Queensland, 17th 



Oct. {North Coll.). . 

 West Australia, 4th Oct. 

 West Australia. 



New South Wales {E. P. Mamsay). 

 New South Wales, Oct. 

 New South Wales. 

 New South Wales ' {J. Gould ■ 



Tristram Coll.). 

 Dobroyde, N.S.W. {E. P. Ramsmj : 



Tristram Coll.). 

 Liverpool, N.S.W., Slat Oct. 



(A. J. North). 

 Victoria. 

 Victoria. 

 Gippsland, Victoria. 



Salvin-GodmaB Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Ooll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Govt, of Victoria [P.l. 

 Govt, of Victoria [P.]. 

 F. A. Philbrick,Esq., K.C. [P.]. 



Pachycepliala olivacea, Vig. Sf Homf. 



Pachycephala olivacea, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 218 (1865) ; 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 212 (1883) ; North, Nests ^ Eggs 

 Austr. Birds, p. 68, pi. viii. fig. 11 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 71 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 326, pi. 12 

 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 309 (1903). 



Three eggs of the Olivaceous Thickhead in the Collection are of 

 an oval shape, inclining to the biconical, the broader end being 

 somewhat sharply pointed. They are slightly glossy and cream- 

 coloured, sparingly spotted and blotched with dark reddish brown 

 or umber-brown and lavender. The markings are disposed chiefly 

 on the broad half. They measure 1-1 by -79 ; 1-13 by -77 ; 1'18 

 by "78 respectively. 



1. Tasmania. 



2. Tasmania {E. D. Atkinson). 



Gould Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Pachycephala xanthoprocta, Gould. 

 (Plate XIII. fig. 13.) 



Pachycephala xanthoprocta, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 211 (1893) ; 

 North, Nests 8f Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 409 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. 

 Eiersamml. p. 71 (1899) ; Sharpe, Sand-l. iv. p. 309 (1903). 



The eggs of the Norfolk Island Thickhead in the Collection are 

 of a rather broad oval form and slightly glossy. They are of a 

 pale creamy-bufif colour, thickly mottled and spotted over the 

 broader half with umber -brown and lavender-grey. The smaller 

 half of the egg is comparatively free of markings. Two examples 

 measure respectively : 1 by "7 ; "95 by "7. 



2. Norfolk Island. 



Gould Coll. 



