. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . eciesof Chlamydodcra, under the name of C. recondita, is now regarded bj Dr. Meyer as the egg ofC. cerviniventris. It was found by Herr A. Grubauer in February, 1892, at Constantine Harbour,German New Guinea, lying almost without any support in a large curved leaf of a palm, aboutthree feet above the water. Sericulus melinus. EEGENT BOWEK-lilKl).Turdus melinus. Lath., Iiid. Orn., Suppl., p. xliv., (1801).Sericulus chrysocephalus, Gould, Bds. Austr., Vol. IV., pi. 12 (1848). Sericulus melinus, Gould, Handbk. Ikls. Austr.
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . eciesof Chlamydodcra, under the name of C. recondita, is now regarded bj Dr. Meyer as the egg ofC. cerviniventris. It was found by Herr A. Grubauer in February, 1892, at Constantine Harbour,German New Guinea, lying almost without any support in a large curved leaf of a palm, aboutthree feet above the water. Sericulus melinus. EEGENT BOWEK-lilKl).Turdus melinus. Lath., Iiid. Orn., Suppl., p. xliv., (1801).Sericulus chrysocephalus, Gould, Bds. Austr., Vol. IV., pi. 12 (1848). Sericulus melinus, Gould, Handbk. Ikls. Austr., Vol. I., p. 45C (1865); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. , Vol. VI., p. (1891). Adult male—Head, hind neck, and mantle, hriglil orani/e-yelloir ; sinciput ; hack,rump, and uj>per tail coverts black; upper ?citiff coverts black: first two primaries black, the next threeblack, orange-yellow on their inner webs, except on tJie apical portion; tlie r(.inaiiider of the primaries • Abhandl. k. zool. Mus., Dresd., No. 10, p. 2 (1895). SERICULUS. 61. and the outer secondaries orange-yelloro, black at the tips, the black tips decreas^ng vn s^ze towards secondaries, u-hick are oranye-yeUo.; lores, a broad line .ffoa^.rs ^^^^^^^^^ f^^^sides of the face, all the under surface, and under tail coverts black; bM ; leys andjeet black,iris siraw-^oldte. Total length in the flesh 10 inches, wing 5-1, tail SS, Inll 1, tarsus I^o. Adult y^^.L^-General colour above brorcn; the feathers of the mantle and back with narrowblackish edges and Me centres, those of the rump and upper tail courts .ith a ^J>^^^ J^f^^rohite near the tip : unngs and tail brown, the inner secondar^es unth a spot of wlnte at the tp oI^Zr webs torehld, sides of the head, and hind neck, brownish-white with dusky edges to altZ^L; crown of the head and the hind neck black : chin and sides ,f .e threat dnMbroinisJ^white, on the sides oj the lower throat dark brown wUh
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