MIMETA. 
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The only egg known of this species at present, which was taken 
from the oviduct, is in the Australian Museum Collection, and is 
of a long oval slightly swollen at one end, the ground colour being 
of a pale lavender ; upon the larger end and beneath the surface 
of the shell is a zone of nearly round and oval-shaped spots of a 
uniform pale lilac colour, which in some places are confluent; on 
the outer surface all over the larger end, to the lower edge of the 
zone, are irregularly shaped but well-defined linear markings of 
sienna, assuming strange shapes ; two prominent markings being 
a double loop, and a scroll, others less conspicuous are in the shape 
of the letter / and the figure 6, while several of the markings 
stand at right angles to one another; from the lower edge of the 
zone and dispersed over the rest of the surface, are a few bold 
dashes of the same colour, several lines being straight, but marked 
obliquely across the egg, others are like the letter Y with one side 
lengthened at a right angle, and the figure 7, while upon the lower 
apex is a single mark in the shape of the letter M. The peculiarity 
of the markings of this egg is, that the spots appear to be on 
the under surface, and the linear markings on the outer surface 
of the shell. Length 1-35 inchxO'9 inch.” ( North , P.L.S., N.S. 
IF., Vol. i., 2nd Series, p. 1160.) 
I lab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales. (Ramsay.) 
Family ORIOLIDiE. 
Genus MIMETA, Vigors and Horsjield. 
MIMETA VIRIDIS, Latham. 
New South. Wales Oriole. 
Gould, Sandbk. JBds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 283, p. 462. 
“The nest of this bird is like that of the Eriar-bird( Tropidorhynchus 
corniculatus), differing only in the size, which is a little smaller, 
being from four to five inches in diameter, three to four inches 
