BY E. P. RAMSAY, F.L.S. 409 



Eggs four for a sitting, leugtli (1) O'G x 0-^5 inches ; (2) O'GS x 

 0'46 ; the last (2) is an exceptionally large egg of this species, 

 and has the dots crowded into a brownish-red patch on the thicker 

 end, a few specks of the same colour arc sprinkled over the rest 

 of the surface ; the ground colour is white in !N'o. 1, it is sprinkled 

 with reddish dots all over the surface, but forming a zone at the 

 thicker end. — {From 3£r. 'Barnard's Coll.) 



48. PiiAPs iirsTRToxiCA, Gould. 



The nest is a scant structure of a few grasses, collected in a 

 slight depression on the ground ; the eggs are two in number for 

 a sitting, pure white. This species is at times very numerous on 

 the Barkoo and Dawson Rivers ; in 1860 it appeared plentifully 

 in the neighbourhood of Port Denison. — (Mm. Dolr., from Mr. 

 J. JB. White's Collection.) 



49. Chlamydodera maculata, Gould. PL 3, fig. 2. 



I have received this species of Bower Bird from almost every 

 part of the interior of Queensland, New South Wales, and South 

 Australia, and eggs from the Dawson River in Queensland, the 

 Barkoo, the Clarence River, and from the Cobar district in JSTew 

 South "Wales. They differ very little in the tints of the markings, 

 varying in shades, in umber, sienna, and olive-brown, those at 

 present under consideration were taken by Mr. James Eamsay 

 in the Cobar district, they are of a pale greenish-white with 

 numerous thick lines of umber wound round the whole surface, 

 irregular, wavy, crossing and recrossing here and there, forming 

 loops and knots, and occasionally crossed by a line of black or 

 an obsolete line of olive or slaty-brown. The nest is an open 

 structure of sticks and grasses, round, about five inches inside 

 diameter, by three deep, and four inches high ; it is placed between 

 the thick upright forks of a tree. The eggs are two to three 

 in number for a sitting, length 1*53 x 1'07 in diameter. — (Mus, 

 Dohr., J. B.) 



