NESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS 
FOUND BREEDING ON 
LORD HOWE AND NORFOLK ISLANDS. 
These remote insular dependencies of New South Wales, situated 
in the Pacific Ocean, possess a great interest to Students of 
Australian Ornithology, as within their limited areas several 
genera of birds are found that are represented in the Australian 
and New Zealand regions. Both islands, however, in regard to 
their avifauna decidedly belong to the Australian region, as only 
three genera have been met with typical of New Zealand that 
are not found in Australia, viz. :— Nestor, Notornis, and 
Ocydromus, the former two however are now extinct, and the 
genus Ocydromus is confiued to Lord Howe Island. The genera 
found in these Islands and represented in Australia, hut not in 
New Zealand, are llalwtus, Haliaslur, Strep era, Pachycephaln, 
Myiayra, Cnc.omantis, Chalcophaps, Onychoprion, Anons, Gyyis, 
and P halt on, to these may lie added Eurystomus and Sula, which 
only occur as stragglers in New Zealand. There are no genera 
peculiar to either Island, but several distinct and well-defined 
species, a list of which will be found on reference to the Appendix 
of Dr. Ramsay’s “ Tabular List of Australian Birds,” p. 37. 
For information on the habits of the birds found breeding on 
Norfolk Island, I am indebted to Dr. P. Herbert Metcalfe, the 
Resident Medical Officer, who has obtained with one or two 
exceptions the nests and eggs of all birds found breeding there, 
the eggs of which he has kindly forwarded on loan for description, 
together witli the notes on their nidification and breeding seasons. 
The descriptions of the nests and eggs of two birds peculiar to 
Lord Howe Island are also given, (Morula, vinitincta, and 
Ocydromus sylrestris,) taken from specimens lately acquired by 
Mr. T. R. Icely, the Visiting Magistrate, on behalf of the 
Trustees of the Australian Museum. 
