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SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOGUE OF " NESTS AND 



EGGS OF BIRDS FOUND BREEDING IN AUSTRALIA 



AND TASMANIA." 



By A. J. North. 

 [Part I., March, 1891.] 



NiNOX coxNiVENS, Latham. Winking Owl. 

 (rould, Handbk. lids. Austr., Vol. i., sp. 34, p. 71. 



Although the present species is widely distfihuted over the 

 Australian continent, but little knowledge has been gained of its 

 niditication and eggs, and it is due to the exertions of Mr. George 

 Barnard and his sons, of Duaringa, Queensland, that I am enabled 

 to give a description of this rare eg^, taken at Coomooboolaroo, 

 during September 1886. The nesting place was in a Eucalyptus 

 the entrance of which was through the end of a small hollow 

 spout opening into the main trunk of the tree ; here Mr. Barnard's 

 sons made an aperture with an axe, and the eggs two in number, 

 were found deposited on the decaying wood near the bottom of 

 the tree. Last year three more eggs of the same species were 

 taken from this tree, in both instances being perfectly fresh. The 

 egg of Ninox connivens is rounded in form, and pure white, the 

 texture of the shell being very fine and the surface slightly glossy. 

 Long diameter I -SI inch, short diameter I'Gl inch. 



Mr. W. B. Barnard informs me that he found a nest of this 

 species, about eighteen inches down the hollow limb of a large 

 Eucalyptus, containing three young ones, from which it may be 

 inferred that like N. hoohook, three eggs is the usual number laid 

 by this bird for a sitting. 



Ilab. Australia, with the exception of North-west. 



Ailur(i;dus viridis, Latham. The Cat-bird. 



Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aii,str.,Yo\. i., sp. 277, p. 446. 



The habitat of the Cat-bird is the dense scrubs of the coastal 

 ranges of New South Wales. It is particularly plentiful at 

 Cambewarra and the Kangaroo Valley, in the Ulawarra District, 

 and is found in favourable localities all through the southern 

 portions of tlie coast ranges, becoming scarcer however as the 

 boundary of the colony is approached. The rich brushes in the 

 neighbourhood of the Clarence, Richmond, and Tweed Rivers are 

 also strongholds of this species, and it is also found, but not so 

 freely dispersed in the extreme south of Queensland. Although 

 a common and well known bird for ]uany years, being described 



