PABEA. 327 



inch; (0)1 -94x1 -33 inch; (D) 1-83 x 1-36 inch ; (E)l-97xl-36 

 inch; (F) 1-95 x 1-33 inch ; (G) 1-9 x 1-35 inch. Specimens in 

 my own collection give the same average measurements. 



Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, 

 Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond 

 and Clarence River District, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 

 and South- Australia, Tasmania, West and South-West Australia. 

 {Ramsay.) 



Genus PAREA, Latham. 



PARRA GALLINACEA, Temminek. 



Corab-crested Parra. 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 569, p. 330. }{\/ 1 S 



" The eggs of this species are among the most beautiful of any 

 laid by our Australian birds. The curious labyrinthine markings 

 which characterize them, however, are not altogether confined to 

 the eggs of the Parra; as those of at least three of our species of 

 Pomatostomus are beautifully veined and marbled in the most 

 delicate manner." . . . "They vary in form, being quite oval'and 

 pointed equally at both ends, to almost round, or pyriform as in some 

 of the Plovers. When of this last shape, they are usually placed in 

 the nest with their small ends pointing inwards. In length they are 

 from 13"5 lines to 14 '5 lines, and in breadth from 10 to 11 lines. 

 The grdund colour is a light olive-yellow, becoming with time much 

 darker. The whole surface is crossed and recrossed with irregularly 

 curved and rather broad black lines, turning and twisting in every 

 direction, and, in some examples, with shorter lines, making 

 various ill-shapen letters or figures, while in others these markings 

 take the form of blotches. Appearing beneath the shell are deep 

 yellowish-brown streaks and hair-lines recrossing those on the 

 surface. Some specimens are more numerously streaked than 

 others, and have the broader black lines predominating ; in others 

 the fine hair-lines and those of yeUowish-brown are more visible. 



