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collecting tour in the vicinity of Rockingham Bay, for Dr. 

 Ramsay in 1867 is the only specimen that I have seen in any 

 collection. I give Dr. Ramsay's description of it which appeared 

 in the Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1868, p. 388 :— 



^^ Eryth/ra quad/ristrigata, $ .- — An egg taken from the oviduct 

 of this specimen is of a dirty greenish-white, the ground colour 

 almost obscured by dots, spots, and a few blotches of brownish-red 

 and yellowish-brown, many of the larger markings appearing as 

 if beneath the surface ; length 1'08 x 0-86 inch." 



Mr. Gould writes as follows in reference to this species in his 

 Handbook to the Birds of Australia, Vol. ii., p. 344 : — •" As the 

 nest and eggs of this species have not yet been discovered, they 

 form some of the desiderata to which I would call the attention 

 of the rising ornithologists of Australia ; and I can assure them 

 that the study of the eggs will greatly assist them in assigning the 

 birds to which they belong to their proper genus." 



It will be observed that Mr. Gould was right in adopting a 

 diflFerent generic term for this bird, as the egg materially differs 

 from those of the typical Ponanw. 



Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Rockingham 

 Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District. {Ramsay.) 



Order NATATORES. 



Family ANATIDiE. 



Genus CYGNUS, Linnceus. 



CYGNUS ATRATUS, Latham. 

 Black S'wan. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., sp. 577, p. 346. 



This bird is found over the eastern and southern portions of the 

 Australian continent, and likewise the greater part of Tasmania. 

 It is particularly plentiful on the southern coast of Victoria where 



