78 
CAMPOPHAOm.*:. 
“The egg is of a bright apple-green colour, with a well defined 
zone of redclish-brown spots near the thicker end ; the rest of the 
surface is thickly sprinkled with dots, freckles, and small spots of 
the same, or of a slightly brighter tint, which are less close 
together on the thin end ; it is rather elongated in form, measuring 
in length 098 inch, its short diameter being OG8 inch.”(Fitzr/errdd, 
P.L.S., N.S.W., Yol. ii., 2nd Series, 1887. p. 971.) 
Hub. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
South Coast New Guinea. (Rmnsny.) 
LALAGE TRICOLOR, Siminaon. 
(Campej)hnya humeralis, Gould.) 
White-shouldered Lalage. 
Gould, JIandbk. lid*. Amt ., Vol. i., sp. 112, p. 204. 
This species is universally dispersed throughout Australia, and its 
sweet and pleasant note, which can be heard from a great distance, 
together with the striking contrast of its plumage, makes it one 
of the most conspicuous of the smaller birds to be met with in the 
Australian bush. It usually constructs its nest on a dead 
horizontal branch, but in the neighbourhood of Mount Buninyong, 
Victoria, 1 have found it built in the upright forks, at the top 
of the stem of a sapling; it is a shallow structure, composed 
of grasses, loosely interwoven and held together with cobwebs, 
and small fragments of bark attached to the outside and rim of 
the nest; it measures two and a-quarter inches inside diameter, 
and one-half inch in depth. The eggs are two or three in number 
fora sitting, and are usually of a light green ground colour, blotched 
uniformly all over with longitudinal markings of reddish-brown 
and olive-brown, length (A) 0-82 x 0-65 inch ; (B) 0-83 x 0-67 inch. 
This species breeds during the months of September, October, 
and November. 
