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hollow stump b)^ Mr. E. Stii'ton, of Moree. Also some siliceous 

 stones, land-shells, berries, pieces of coloured glass, and a galvanised 

 iron screw which, in company with Mr. C. McMaster, of " Wilga," 

 Moree, he had procured from a play-house of the Spotted Bower- 

 bird, Chlamyclodera macu/ata, on Weebollabolla Station, on the 

 10th instant. The bower was constructed under the shelter of 

 a "Lemon-wood," Atalantia ylaiica, and had a few stones and 

 freshly gathered berries in the centre of the floor; a small heap 

 of stones, pieces of glass, land-shells and berries at either 

 entrance ; a large heap of broken glass, succeeded by another 

 of bones about eighteen inches apart from the entrance on 

 one side, and a similar heap of bones a foot away from the other 

 end. The parallel walls of the bower, which were IS inches 

 in length, were wholly constructed of dried " spear or corkscrew- 

 grass," Stipa setacea, stuck upright in a slight foundation of 

 fine twigs. This confirms a statement made by Mr. McMaster 

 to Dr. Ramsay some years ago that, in the Moree District, 

 Cldamydodera maculata uses dried grass instead of fine twigs for 

 the walls of its bower. Also, with the permission of the Curator 

 of the Australian Museum, two sets of eggs of the Pied Honey- 

 eater, Gerthioiiijx leucomelas, Cuvier. The eggs vary in ground 

 colour from a dull greyish-white to a very faint cream-white, one 

 set being evenh^ spotted with rounded blackish-brown markings, 

 and having underlying spots of dull bluish-grey; the other set has 

 a zone of nearly obsolete dull bluish markings towards the larger 

 end, and a few conspicuous spots of dark umber-brown on the 

 outer surface of the shell. Length (A) 0-9 x 0-til inch; (B) 

 0-93 X 0-62; (C) 0-88 x 0-65; (D) 086 x 0-65. These eggs resemble 

 some varieties of those of the Dusky Wood-swallow, Artamus 

 sordidus, and were taken by the late Mr. K H. Bennett in Western 

 New South Wales, near the South Australian border. At the 

 same time Mr. Bennett obtained the eggs of what he stated 

 shortly before his decease to be an undescribed species of 

 Honey-eater resembling Certhionyx leucomdas, which appeared 

 in great numbers one season, and were never observed after. 

 These eggs, of a beautiful greenish-blue ground colour with spots 



