DESCRIPTIONS OF NESTS AND EGGS. 
Eggs. Clutch three or four ; rich creamy white, with spots, freckles and dots of dark umber- 
brown, and nearly obsolete markings of sepia on the thicker end, becoming confluent and 
forming a broken zone. 25 mm. by 20. 
Breeding-season. September to November. 
Rhipidura flabellifera pelzelni. Ante, p. 42. 
Nest. Small, round and deeply cup-shaped ; composed outwardly of mosses, fibrous roots and cob¬ 
web, lined with finer grasses and a few feathers. Usually placed on the branch of a low tree. 
Eggs. Clutch three or four, oval in form, white with dull coloured light brown markings, and several 
blotches and spots of palo bluish-grey on the thicker end, appearing as if beneath the surface. 
17 mm. by 12. 
Breeding-season. October to December. 
Diaphoropterus leucopygus . Ante, p. 45. 
Nest. Pound and shallow, constructed outwardly of mosses, lichens and fibrous roots, lined with 
similar material of a finer description. 
Eggs. Clutch two ; oval, compressed slightly towards the thinner end. Ground-colour pale 
green tinged with grey, with thick irregular-shaped longitudinal markings of different shades 
of olive-brown, and a few minute freckles scattered over the surface. On the larger end 
are several nearly obsolete markings of dull bluish-grey. 22 mm. by 17. 
Breeding-season. September. (October to December.) 
Turdus xanihopus vinitinctus. Ante p. 47. 
Nest. Elliptical in form, with a small cup-shaped depression in the top ; composed throughout of 
strips of palm leaves and fibre of one of the species of Kentia peculiar to the island, together 
with skeletons of leaves, but without any special lining. Measurements outside, seven 
inches by five deep—inside, two and a half across by three deep. 
Eggs. Clutch two, inclining to elongated ovals slightly pointed at the thin end. Pale greenish-grey 
with freckles, dots and longitudinal markings of reddish-brown dispersed over the entire 
surface; in some places a few nearly obsolete blotches of purplish-grey. 29 mm. by 19. 
Breeding-season. October. (November and December.) 
Turdus poliocephahis. Ante , p. 48. 
Nest. Open and cup-shaped, placed in banks, the top of stumps or branches of trees, from twelve 
to sixteen feet from the ground. 
Eggs. Clutch two to four ; ground-colour pale greenish-grey, light isabelline, or pale green ; 
covered with reddish-chestnut freckles and dots of light purple appearing as if beneath the 
surface ; or with irregular-shaped chestnut markings and nearly obsolete freckles and dots 
of light purple ; or almost obscured by numerous markings of chestnut-brown, thickly and 
uniformly dispersed over the surface. 29 to 31 mm. by 20. 
Breeding-season. September to December ; April and May. 
Nesozosterops albogularis . Ante, p. 51. 
Nest. Similar to that of tenuirostris. 
Eggs. Clutch four to five, uniform pale blue. 21 mm. by 14. 
Breeding-season. October to December. 
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