248 oueuLiD^. 



eggs of both this and the preceding species is easily rubbed off 

 when moisture is applied to them. 



Sah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Denison,Wide Bay District, 

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 

 Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania. {Mamgay.) 



Genus SCYTHEOPS, Latham. 



SCYTHROPS NOV^-HOLLANDI^, Latham. 

 Channel-bill. 

 Gould, Randbh. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 386, p. 628. :EZ:. 3. 



"This bird is universally distributed over the whole continent 



of Australia, and one or two stragglers have even been found in 



* 

 Tasmania. Dr. Hurst has kindly permitted me to describe an 



egg of this species from his collection, which, he informs me was 



taken from the oviduct of a bird shot at Kempsey, on the Macleay 



River, during the first week in November 1884, and which he 



exhibited at a meeting of this Society in the same month. Ground 



colbTir dull white, with faint washed-out pinkish spots and minute 



dots, also some of a light yellowish-brown tinge J appearing as if 



beneath the surface of the shell at the apex of the thick end are 



others of a light purplish-brown, becoming confluent, and forming 



a very indistinct patch, intermingled with some of a brownish 



shade. AU the markings are very ill-defined, and the egg closely 



resembles a very large and washed-out specimen of the egg of 



Grallina australis. Length 1"5 x 1'05 inch." (North, P.L.S., 



N.S. W., Vol. ii., 2nd Series, p. 410.) 



Sah. Derby, N.W. Australia, 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, Interior, Viotofia and South Australia, 

 Tasmania, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 



