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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
Note on the 
NIDIFICATION of MANUGODIA COMBI I. \ Sctater. 
Gomrids Manucode. 
By A. J. North, F.L.S., Assistant in Ornithology. 
[Plate VII.] 
Manucodia conrii , Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1876, p. 459. 
The Trustees of the Australian Museum have lately received 
from the Rev. R. H. Rickard the egg of Manucodia comrii , 
taken by him on Fergusson Island, off the South-East coast of 
New Guinea, in July, 1891. The Rev. Mr. Rickard informs me 
that from the 20th of June to the 20th of July he had been 
at various times engaged in company with his black boy shooting 
Manucodes on this island, but rarely saw a female. Early in 
J uly he found a nest of this species in the lower branches of a 
bread-fruit tree at a height of twenty-five feet from the ground. 
The female was on the nest, which was an open loosely Jmade 
structure of vinelets and twigs placed at the extremity of the 
branch ; having procured her, he found that she was in very 
indifferent plumage as though she had been sitting for a long 
time, and the eggs, two in number, were chipped, and just upon 
the point of hatching. The egg is an elongate ovoid in form, 
and is of a warm isabelline ground colour with purplish dots, 
blotches and bold longitudinal streaks, uniformally dispersed over 
the surface of the shell, intermingled with similar superimposed 
markings of purplish-grey. Length 1*65 x 1T3 inch. 
The range . of this species is confined to the islands of the 
D’Entrecasteaux Group. 
