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some nearly ouscuriug the ground colour, others have a pinkisli 

 chocolate tinge. Length 0'95 x 072. — (JIics. Dohr., J. A'.) 



0. Paciiycepiiala OLiYAt'EA, /7y. tj* Horsf. 



Eggs two or three in number, rather pointed at both ends, 

 length 1*05 to 1"1 by 0"75 to O'S in breadth, colour white or very 

 pale buff, with rather large spots of light brown, yellowish brown 

 or blackish brown and roundish obsolete dots of pale lilac, 

 sparingly scattered over the whole surface but closer together at 

 the larger end. — {From Mr. GamphelVs Collection.) 



7. Paciiycepiiala melaxura, Gould. 



The nest is a cup shaped, shallow, rather scanty structure of fine 

 roots and twigs lined with rootlets and grass, &c., and through 

 the bottom of which the eggs can be seen from below, it is about 

 three to four inches in diameter by two deep. The eggs are three 

 in number, of a pale buff, with irregular spots of dark umber 

 sparingly scattered over the face, but forming a zone near the 

 thicker end. Length, A. O'So x O'Gi in. ; B. O'Si x 0*62 in. 

 (J//'. Barnard's Coll.) 



S. Pteropodocts phasiaxella, Gould. PL 3, fig. 1. 



The nest is very similar to that of Graucalus melanops, and 

 placed in such like situations on horizontal boughs, it is composed 

 of grasses and stalks of various herbs slightly interwoven and 

 fastened together by spiders' webs, &c., and lined with finer grass 

 &c., inside diameter four inches, the depth 1"4, the height of the 

 rim above the branch on which it is placed is one inch. The eggs 

 are three in number, oblong in form, the shell of a delicate thin 

 texture, the ground colour pale asparagus green with a dull 

 brownish patch of confluent markings at the thicker end, or with 

 freckles of the same tint thinly distributed over the surface, and 

 a few black irregular markings at the thick end. Length 1"3 x 

 0-95 ; 1-35 x 095 ; 1-33 x 092 ; 1-3 x O'S? ; 1-3.5 x 0-88. 



