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Habitat. — Interior of New South Wales. 



The species here described belongs to the tuberculated section 

 of the genus, but differs in several constant characters from each 

 of the three described forms belonging to that section ; from 

 ciliaris it is manifestly different in the absence of spinous tubercles 

 on the supraciliary region, wXiiXq ivoxn. strophiirus \t is equally well 

 distinguished by the presence of tubercles on the tail ; its nearest 

 ally, therefore, is spinigerus, whose place it would appear to take 

 in the interior of this Colony ; from that specie.s, however, it differs 

 in tlie following, among other, characters : — ^The snout is very 

 much longer; the dorsal tubercles form two regular longitudinal 

 series ; there are eleven to thirteen upper and ten to twelve lower 

 labials only ; and the tail is armed with transverse rows of strong 

 tubercles ; while in spinigerus the snout is only a little longer 

 than the diameter of the orbit, the tubercles are irregularly scat- 

 tered over the dorsal surface, there are thirteen to fifteen upper, 

 and as many lower labials, and the caudal tubercles are arranged 

 in a single longitudinal series on each side of the tail and are black. 



SUPPLEMENT to the DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of 



"NESTS AND EGGS op BIRDS FOUND BREEDING m 



AUSTRALIA and TASMANIA." 



[Part IL, April 1892.] 



By A. J. North, F.L.S. 



Since the issue of Part I. the following new nests and eggs have 

 been obtained and are herein described •.—Edoliisoma temiirostre, 

 Turnix inelanotus, Ptilutis frenata, and Pohjtelis alexandroi. 

 Descriptions of nests and eggs also appear that are not given in 

 the Catalogue, as well as additional information on the nidifica- 

 tion of other species. I here express my indebtedness to the col- 



