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TANTALIDJE. 
of well authenticated sets from Mr. K. H. Bennett and Mr. George 
Masters, Dr. Ramsay corrected his mistake in describing them 
as the eggs of the latter bird. (See P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. i., New 
Series, 1886, p. 1060.) 
A single egg of this species in the Australian Museum Collection 
is of a light stone colour, the entire surface of which is nearly 
obscured by very irregular shaped black patches and lines- 
Length 1'38 x 1-04 inch. Taken by Mr. F. Morrow near Orange, 
on the 27th of November 1878. 
The handsome set of eggs taken by Mr. K. II. Bennett near 
the margin of a swamp at Ivanhoe in October, from a slight 
depression in the ground, neatly lined with broad Eucalyptus 
leaves, are four in number, rather elongated in form, of a creamy- 
white ground colour, the blotches and lines being smaller and 
closer together than in the former specimen, in some places 
forming confluent brownish-black patches ; where the ground 
colour is visible appear a few superimposed spots of a lighter colour, 
appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 1 '4 x 
1 inch ; (B) 1 -47x0-99 inch; (C) 1-4x1 inch; (D) l-35x 1 inch. 
Another set of four measures as follows length (A) 1-31 x 1 
inch; (B) 1-39 x 0'98 inch; (C)1’37 x 1 inch; (D) 1-38 x 0-98 inch. 
Three eggs in the Macleayan Museum Collection give the 
following dimensions:—length (A) 1-42 x 1 inch; (B) 1-4 x 1-02 
inch; (C) 1'37 x 1 inch. 
llab. Rockingham Bay, Wide Bay District, Richmond and 
Clarence River Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 
and South Australia, West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay ) 
Family TANTALID-^E. 
Genus GERONTICUS. 
GERONTICDS SPINICOLLIS, Jameson. 
Straw-necked Ibis. 
Gould, RandbL Bds. Just, Vol. ii., sp., 538, p. 282. 
The late Mr. W. Liscombe of Moonee Ponds, Victoria, found 
this bird breeding in great numbers during wet seasons in the 
