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resembled the branch on which it was placed. The egg is ovoid 

 in form, of a very pale bluish-grey ground colour, uniformly 

 spotted and dotted with irregular shaped markings of difterent 

 shades of umber and slaty-brown, underlying blotches of slaty- 

 grey appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length 

 1-2 X 0'82 inch. In the colour and disposition of its markings, 

 it resembles some varieties of the eggs of Sitlella chrysoptera, and 

 in shape and size that of the egg of Graucalus hyperleucus, but 

 is entirely free from the asparagus-green ground colour which 

 predominates in the eggs of the latter genus. This is the only 

 occasion I have known of the nest and egg of this species having 

 been taken. 



The northern and eastern portions of the Australian Continent 

 constitutes the habitat of this species. 



