46 COXTRIBUTIOXS TO AUSTRAL LAX OOLOGY, 



Colour of a pure pearly white. Leugtli A. 172 x 1'3 iu., ovcJ in 

 shape : 11 I'G x l'8i rather round. — (Ifu-s. Dohr.} 



8. EUETSTOMUS PACIFIC US, Lath. 



I found this bird nesting in the hollow Eucalyptus boughs on 

 the Kichmond E/iver in 1SG7 ; they malvc no nest but lay their 

 eggs on the dust formed by decayed wood— not unfrequently 

 they fight with, and dispossess the DaceJo gigns, and I have seen 

 them take the young of this bird and throw them out of the nest. 

 The eggs are two to three in number, of a dull white, rather glossy, 

 and sometimes variable in form, some being oval and pointed, 

 others almost round. Length (A.) l*4-5 x 1*05, oblong ; (B.) 

 1*34 X I'l, roundish. — {Mus. Bohr.) 



PASSEEES. 



4. Pomatosto:nlus rubeculus, Gould. 



]S'est flask shaped, of thin sticks and twigs interwoven, lined 

 with fine grasses, shreds of bark and sometimes a few feathers ; 

 it is placed at the end of some bushy branch, or among thick 

 upright twigs ; and is very similar to that of P. temporalis., as 

 described by Mr. Grould (Handbk., I., ]). 479). The eggs three 

 to five in number, are of a yellowisli brown tint, some with the 

 ground colour of a somewhat saturnine hue, almost obscured by 

 hair lines and veins of blackish sienna or of a blackish chocolate 

 colour ; they vary considerably in tint, some have fleecy cloud like 

 markings and but few hair lines, some are pointed in form, 

 others oblong with both ends almost ocjual. Length 1"05 x 075 

 inch, oJjJong ; 1"07 x 074 inch, pointed ; 1"02 x 07 inch, rounded. 

 (Jlr. l^arnard'.^ Collect ion.) 



5. Po^rATOsT()-MU.s ruficeps, Gould. V\. 3, fig. 12. 



Xest similar to the foregoing. Eggs a little smaller, five i]i 

 number. In several the ground colour has a very faint tinge of 

 grceu, the blackish hair lines are liner and closer together, in 



