1158 NOTES ON THE BOWER BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, 



Victoria and South Australia, its most southern range. The interior 

 provinces are the stronghold of this species, where it is found 

 plentifully dispersed all over the Lachlan and Darling River 

 districts. It occurs inland about 80 miles west from Rockhampton 

 on the Dawson River, and is also reported by Mr. Kendal 

 Broadbent from Charleville, a new settlement about 125 miles 

 west of Brisbane. 



The nest is an open structure placed in a low tree, and is saucer- 

 or bowl-shaped, composed of sticks, and lined with grass and 

 feathers. 



It is very rarely indeed that C. maculata is found near the 

 coast, although on one occasion Dr. Ramsay procured an egg on 

 Ash Island, near Hexham, on the Hunter River, about 10 miles 

 from the sea coast. This was in 1861, and probably the first 

 time that the egg had been found, although this fact appears to 

 have escaped the Doctor's memory, since he described another egg 

 of the same species 13 years afterwards (P. Z. S., 1874, p. 605), 

 when Mr. J. B. White was credited with having obtained the 

 first specimen. 



I give Dr. Ramsay's description, which is that of the typical 

 egg, and of the most usual variety found. 



"In form elongate, tapering; shell thin and delicate, somewhat 

 shining and smooth. Ground-colour of a delicate greenish- white 

 tint, surrounded with narrow, wavy, twisted, irregular, thread-like 

 lines of brown dark umber, light umber-brown, and a few blackish 

 brown, which cross and recross each other, forming an irregular 

 network round the centre and thicker end ; towards the thinner 

 end they are not so closely interwoven, and light brown lines 

 appear as if beneath the surface of the shell, also a few black 

 irregular shaped linear markings, much broader than the rest, 



