MIMETA. 183 



The only egg known of this species at present, which was taken 

 from the oviduct, is in the Australian Museum Collection, and is 

 of a long oval slightly swollen at one end, the ground colour being 

 of a pale lavender ; upon the larger end and beneath the surface 

 of the shell is a zone of nearly round and oval-shaped spots of a 

 uniform pale lilac colour, which in some places are confluent ; on 

 the outer surface all over the larger end, to the lower edge of the 

 zone, are irregularly shaped but well-defined linear markings of 

 sienna, assuming strange shapes ; two prominent markings teing 

 a double loop, and a scroll, others less conspicuous are in the shape 

 of the letter Z and the figure 6, while several of the markings 

 stand at right angl^ to one another ; from the lower edge of the 

 zone and dispersed over the rest of the surface, are a few bold 

 dashes of the same colour, several lines being straight, but marked 

 obfiquely across the egg, others are like the letter V with one side 

 lengthened at a right angle, and the figure 7, while upon the lower 

 apex is a single mark in the shape of the letter M. The peculiarity 

 of the markings of this egg is, that the spots appear to be on 

 the under surface, and the linear markings on the outer surface 

 of the shell. Length 1-35 inch x 0-9 inch." {North, P.L.S., N.S. 

 W., Vol. i., 2nd Series, p. 1160.) 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales. (Bamsay.) 



Family ORIOLID^. 



Genus MIMETA, Vigors and Horsfield. 



2--i ■{''J MIMETA VIRIDIS, Latham. 



Ne-w South. Wales Oriole. 

 Gould, Handhh. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 283, p. 462. 



"The nestof this birdislikethatof ihe'Eria.v-hivdi(Tropidorhynchus 

 cornioulatus), differing only in the size, which is a little smaller, 

 being from four to five inches in diameter, three to four inches 



