XENORHYNCHUS. 
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A pair of eggs in my collection taken by Mr. W. Liscombe, 
near Tumut, are of a dull white, uniformly and sparingly spotted 
all over with blood-red markings, a few nearly obsolete spots of 
purplish-brown appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. 
Length (A) 3-6 x 2'27 inches ; (B) 3'G5 x 2-3 inches. 
The eggs of this species are subject to much variation in the 
colour and disposition of their markings, and the shell is minutely 
pitted over the whole surface. September and the two following 
months constitute the breeding season of this species. 
Rah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Rockingham 
Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond 
and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 
and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Family CICONIUX®. 
Genus XENORHYNCHUS, Bonaparte. 
XENORHYNCHUS AUSTRALIS, Latham. 
Australian Jabiru. 
Gould, Randbk. Bds. Amt., Vol. ii., sp. 544, p. 293. 
“ Tho Jabiru of the Australian Continent, at one time thought 
to be specifically distinct from that of India but now recognised 
to be one and tho same species, is widely dispersed over the 
northern portions of Australia. It is • found frequenting the 
estuaries of rivers as well as the inland marshes and lagoons, from 
the Clarence River on the east coast to Cambridge Gulf on the 
north-west, specimens having been procured at the latter place by 
the late Mr. T. H. Boyer-Bower, and it will undoubtedly be found 
much farther south when our knowledge of the range of the 
Western Australian avi-fauna is fully worked out. The great 
stronghold, however, of this species is the Indian Empire, over 
the principal portion of which it has been found breeding, and 
