78 CAMPOPHAGH)^. 



" The egg is of a bright apple-green colour, with a well defined 

 zone of reddish-brown spots near the thicker end ; the rest of the 

 surface is thickly sprinkled with dots, freckles, and small spots of 

 the same, or of a slightly brighter tint, which are less close 

 together on the thin end ; it is rather elongated in form, measuring 

 in length 0-98 inch, its short diameter being 0-68 inch."{Fitzgerald, 

 P.L.8., JV.S.W., Vol. ii., 2nd Series, 1887. p. 971.) 



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

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

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 

 South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 



3-:b LALAGE TRICOLOR, Swainson. 



(Carnpephaga humeralis, Gould.) 

 White-shouldered Lalage. » 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 112, p. 204. 



This species is universally dispersed throughout Australia, and its 

 sweet and pleasant note, which can be heard from a great distance, 

 together with the striking contrast of its plumage, makes it one 

 of the most conspicuous of the smaller birds to be met with in the 

 Australian bush. It usually constructs its nest on a dead 

 horizontal branch, but in the neighbourhood of Mount Buninyong, 

 Victoria, I have found it built in the upright forks, at the top 

 of the stem of a sapling ; it is a shallow sti'ucture, composed 

 of grasses, loosely interwoven and held together with cobwebs, 

 and small fragments of bark attached to the outside and rim of 

 the nest ; it measures two and a-quarter inches inside diameter, 

 and one-half inch in depth. The eggs are two or three in number 

 for a sitting, and are usually of a light green ground colour, blotched 

 uniformly all over with longitudinal markings of reddish-brown 

 and olive-brown, length (A) 0-82 x 0-65 inch ; (B) 0-83 x 0-67 inch. 



This species breeds during the months of September, October, 

 and November, 



