buchanga atea. 
389 
firm nnd thick ... The variation in this bird's eggs is remarkable; 
very thin, but the sides, or rim, rath between the dead glossless 
out of more than one hundred eggs pink.crounded one with numerous spots and specks of maroon 
pure white egg and a somewhat glossy, w , p o „„„sible gradation is to be found ; each set of eggs, 
colour, dull red, and red-brown, or even us y, ^ ^^^6 white and a well coloured 
however seems to be invariably s^® ^ i, salmon-colour, spotted with rich brownish red." 
and marked egg in the same nes • Thes 1 . the latter dimensions 
The average of 150 eggs was I'Ol by 0 / o men, 
would be quite equalled, if not exceeded, by those of our ey ones 
