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evidently quite authentic, as the birds were flushed off them, and 

 several specimens shot by myself at the time. The Gootchy eggs 

 are smaller than the present specimen, but sjightly larger than 

 those of E. guttatus. The egg at present under consideration, in 

 size is almost as large as that of Podargus humeralis. An egg 

 from Gootchy is 1'5.3 x l-OS inch ; colour light cream with black 

 round dots. That received from Mr. A. Clarke, is of a rich deep 

 cream-yellow, having on one side a cluster of round black spots, 

 which touch one another here and there, and a few similar dots 

 sprinkled over the remaining surface ; length 1-5.5 inches x 1-15 

 inches in breadth. In consequence of the great width of the egg 

 it appears to be larger than it really is." (^Ramsay, P.Z.S., 1875, 

 p. 581 ; and P.L.8., A'.H.W., Vol. i., 2nd Series, p. 1U2.) 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 

 Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and 

 South Australia. {Ramsay.) 



Genus CAPRIMULGUS, Linnmis. 



•2^ CAPRIMCJLGUS MACRURUS, Hm-^feld. 



Large-tailed Nightjar. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 50, p. 100. 



" I am indebted to Inspector Robert Johnstone for a fine pair 

 of these eggs ; they were found on the ground on the side of a 

 ridge near the Herbert River, Queensland ; and are of a light 

 rich cream colour, fading to whitish after being emptied, clouded 

 all over with fleecy markings of pale slaty lilac, which appear as if 

 beneath the surface of the shell ; length M x -81 inch in breadth. 

 (Ramsay, P.Z.S., 1875, p. 581.) 



Hob. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West 

 and South- West Australia, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 



