374 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 



Total length, 4*45 inches ; wing, 2*88 inches ; tarsi, 0*78 inch ; 

 hind toe (without nail), 0'4 inch ; tail, 2*1 inches; bill from the 

 forehead, 0*6 inch ; from gape, 0*7 inch ; from nostril, 0*35 inch ; 

 its breadth at nostril, 0'24 inch ; width at gape, 0*4 inch. 



The tail in this species is shorter in proportion than that in 

 any other species I have met with, and the wings reach nearly to 

 its tip. 



In habits, E. nana resembles all others of the genus ; building 

 a similar nest and laying eggs closely resembling those of 

 E. capito, but smaller. The nest is placed in the fork of a vine 

 or horizontal bough of a tree ; and is a remarkably neat structure ; 

 one before me is perfectly round, open above, about 1*8 inches 

 inside diameter; 2*8 inches outside; depth inside, 1*4 inches to 

 bottom of nest outside, 1*6 inches to 2*5 inches; it is built in 

 the angle formed by a leaf of a species of Calamus and the 

 upright cane, and supported by the branching leaflets or pinnas ; 

 it is composed of rootlets, narrow stripes of withered palm 

 leaves, and skeletons of leaves, &c, and ornamented on the 

 outside with green mosses and scales of the bark of moss grown 

 scrub trees. 



The eggs are two to three in number, of a dull greenish 

 yellow, greenish buff, or greenish grey-brown, blotched and 

 spotted with yellowish umber, buff, and reddish-brown, with 

 freckles of a slaty grey tint ; the larger spots and blotches 

 forming a zone at the thicker end. Length, 0*85 inch ; breadth, 

 056 inch. 



Notes on a specimen of Arses teles copthalmus (Gam.), from Cape 

 York ? Arses kaupii (Gould) ; and the young of Cracticus 

 quoyi, Less, 8fC. 



Having recently had an opportunity of examining a fine series 

 of Arses kaupii, collected by Mr. Kendall Broadbent, in the scrubs 

 bordering the Barron River at Trinity Bay, I thought a few 

 notes on this hitherto rare species would be acceptable. 



