XBNORHYNCHUS. 315. 



A pair of eggs in my collection taken by Mr. W. Liscombe, 

 near Tumut, are of a dull white, uniformly and sparingly spotted 

 all over with blood-red markings, a few nearly obsolete spots of 

 purplish-brown appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. 

 Length (A) 3-6 x 2-27 inches ; (B) 3'6.5 x 2-3 inches. 



The eggs of this species are subject to much variation in the 

 colour and disposition of their markings, and the shell is minutely 

 pitted over the whole surface. September and the two following 

 months constitute the breeding season of this species. 



Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Kockingham 

 Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, B.ichmond 

 and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 

 and South Australia. {Ramsay.) 



Family CICONIIDJE. 



Genus XENOEHYNCHUS, Bonaparte. 



XENORHYNCHUS AUSTRALIS, ZaiAam. 

 Australian Jabiru. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 544, p. 293. 



" The Jabiru of the Australian Continent, at one time thought 

 to be specifically distinct from that of India but now recognised 

 to be one and the same species, is widely dispersed over the 

 northern portions of Australia. It is found frequenting the 

 estuaries of rivers as well as the inland marshes and lagoons, from 

 the Clarence River on the east coast to Cambridge Gulf on the 

 north-west, specimens having been procured at the latter place by 

 the late Mr. T. H. Boyer-Bower, and it will undoubtedly be found 

 much farther south when our knowledge of the range of the 

 Western Australian avi-fauna is fully worked out. The great 

 stronghold, however, of this species is the Indian Empire, over 

 the principal portion of which it has been found breeding, and 



