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Spring to support it, and is lined with a few leaves. Being often 

 at a considerable distance from the graund and far out on the 

 boughs it is difficult to get at. The eggs are usually three for a 

 sitting, sometimes only two, and are the smallest of any of our 

 Australian Hawk's eggs. The ground colour is greenish white, 

 with smears and specks of yellowish buff, with here and there an 

 irregular shaped spot of the same tint. Length A. 1*74 x 1-43 ; 

 B. 1-8 X 1-42 inches.— fMus, Bohr.) 



COLUMB.E. 



25. GrEOPELIA TRAK^QUILLA, Gould. 



The nest like that of all the members of this family, is a frail 

 scanty structure of a few sticks and twigs placed usually near 

 the end of a bushy bough, or top of a broken off thick limb. 

 They are slightly larger than those of G. cuneata, oval in form 

 and of a pure white colour. Length 0*8 x 0*6 ; 0'78 x 0'58. — 

 (Mus. JDohr.) 



2G. GrEOPELIA CUNEATA, Lath. 



The nest similar to that of the last species, Mr. John S. 

 Itamsay found this bird breeding in numbers at Cardington 

 Station on the Bell River, the nests were placed on the flattened 

 top of the vine-stakes in the vineyord, the birds were remarkably 

 tame, and would allow themselves to be almost taken with the 

 hand. The eggs were invariably two in number, oval, pure white 

 length 07 x 0*55, they breed during September and the two 

 months following. — fDohr. Mus.) 



HERODIONES. 



27. Platalea elavipes, Gould. 



The Australian Museum is indebted to Mr. K. H. Bennett for 

 a fine pair of the eggs of this Spoonbill ; they are rather limey, 

 long and pointed in shape, and minutely pitted all over the 



