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eggs of both this and the 'preceding species is easily rubbed off 
when moisture is applied to them. 
Hab. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, Now South Wales, 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania. (Ramsay.) 
Genus SCYTHROPS, Latham. 
SCYTHROPS NOV/E-HOLLANDUE, Latham. 
Channel-bill. 
Gould, LLandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 386, p. 628. 
“ This bird is universally distributed over the whole continent 
of Australia, and one or two stragglers have even been found in 
Tasmania. Dr. Hurst has kindly permitted me to describe an 
egg of this species from his collection, which, he informs me was 
taken from the oviduct of a bird shot at Kcmpsey, on the Macleay 
River, during the first week in November 1884, and which he 
exhibited at a meeting of this Society in the same month. Ground 
colour dull white, with faint washed-out pinkish spots and minute 
dots, also some of a light yellowish-brown tinge; appearing as if 
beneath the surface of the shell at the apex of the thick end are 
others of a light purplish-brown, becoming confluent, and forming 
a very indistinct patch, intermingled with some of a brownish 
shade. All the markings are very ill-defined, and the egg closely 
resembles a very large and washed-out specimen of the egg of 
Grallina australis. Length l - 5 x l - 05 inch.” (North, P.L.S., 
N.S.W ., Vol. ii., 2nd Series, p. 410.) 
Hab. Derby, N.W. Australia, 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, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 
Tasmania, South Coast New Guinea. (Ramsay .) 
