1140 NOTES ON THE NESTING OF PYCNOPTILUS FLOCCOSUS. 



Mr. A. J. North, of Melbourne, who took a nest of this species 

 so far back as October, 1878, at Childers, in South Gippsland, and 

 exhibited the first specimens I had seen, at the International 

 Exhibition held in Melbourne, 1880, informs me that this species 

 was very plentiful in that district up to 1881, but the numerous 

 clearings made by the " selectors" have since driven the birds to 

 other parts. The eggs he states show no difference from those here 

 described, except that some are slightly longer, and not so swollen 

 as others. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XX. 



Fig. 1, Nest, and fig. 2, Egg of Pycnoptilus floccosus, from the Cambewarra 

 District. 



