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by Latham in 1S02, as Gracnla viridia, fi'om .specimens brought 

 to EngUind by Captain King, which were procured at Port Jack- 

 son, the authentic nest and eggs of this species appear until hitely 

 to have been unknown. Dr. Ramsay described a nest and eggs, 

 said to belong to this species, in the Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales,* upon the authority of the late Mr. 

 Ralph Hargrave who had taken them near Stanwell, in the Illa- 

 warra District, but Dr. Ramsay himself had some misgivings at 

 the time as to their authenticity, on account of the comparatively 

 small dimensions of the eggs for the size of the bird, doubts which 

 I fully shared with him when I saw the specimens referred to 

 some years afterwards. 



The finding of the nest and eggs of a closely allied species, tlie 

 Queensland Cat-bird, Allurddus iiiaailosiis, Ramsay, by Messrs. 

 Cairn and Grant, from which the parent birds were siiot, and 

 which were described by me in the Pi-oceedings of the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales,! dispelled at once any idea as to the 

 nest and eggs of the so-called A. viridls, taken by Mr. Hargrave 

 being authentic. 



For an opportunity of examining an authentic nest and egg of 

 the New South Wales, Cat-bird, Ailarirdus viridis, Latham, I am 

 indebted to Mr. W. J. Grime, a most enthusiastic and persevering 

 oologist, who recently procured two nests of this species on the 

 Tweed River, and sent the following notes relative to the taking 

 of them : — 



"On the 4th of October, 1890, I was out looking for nests 

 accompanied by a boy. I left him for a little while to go further 

 in the scrub, and on my return he informed me he had found a 

 Cat-bird's nest with two eggs in, one of which he showed me, the 

 other one he broke descending the ti^ee. I went with him to the 

 nest and found the old birds very savage. Hying at us, and flutter- 

 ing along the ground. The nest was built in a three pronged 

 fork of a tree, about fourteen feet fr'om the ground. The tree 

 was only four inches in diameter, and was in a jungle or light 

 scrub, about fifty yards fi-om the edge of the open country. I 

 felled the tree and secured the nest, of which there is no doubt 

 as to its being authentic, as the old birds strongly objected to my 

 taking it. The eggs had been sat on for a few days and were 

 partially incubated." 



In a subsequent letter dated Noveml^er the 8th, Mr. Grime 

 writes, " To day I found another Cat-bird's nest and drove the 

 parent bird oil" it myself. I thought T had moi'e eggs as the Cat- 

 bird would not leave the nest until fairly shakett out, but when 

 I examined the nest found two young birds in it, apparently just 

 hatched a couple of days." 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. ii., (1877) p. 107. 



f Proc. Linn. iSoc, N.S.W., Vol. iii., Second Scjies, (ISaS) p. 117. 



