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sitting on two fresh eggs. This nest, which is now mounted in the Group collection of the 

 Australian Museum, is broader at the base where it is saddled on to the limb, than at the top. 

 Externally it measures at the base three inches and three-quarters in diameter, and across the 

 top two inches and a quarter, the inner cup measuring one inch and a quarter in depth. On the 

 same day I found another new nest lying on the ground, and apparently blown off by the high 

 winds of a few days before. 



The eggs are oval in form, the shell being close-grained, smooth, and lustreless. They are 

 of a very faint greenish or bluish-grey ground colour, and are minutely dotted and spotted with 

 purplish-brown, dark slaty-brown, and wood-brown markings, which become larger on the 

 thicker end, and form an ill-defined zone. Length: — (A) 07 x 0-53 inches; (B) .0-69 x 0-53 

 inches. .V set of three eggs taken by Mr. Gabriel at Bayswater, on the nth December, 

 1897, from a nest built in a Blanket tree, and which also contained an egg of the Square- 

 tailed Cuckoo, measures as follows: — Length (A) o-6i x 0-5 inches; (B) o-6i x 0-5 inches; (C) 

 o-6i X 0-51 inches. A set of two, taken by Mr. D. Swift at Ourimbah, on the nth November, 

 1901, measures: — Length (.\) 0-69 x o'52 inches; (B) 0-67 x 0-53 inches. 



Erythrodryas rhodinogaster. 



PIXK-iiKEASTED KOBIN. 

 Saxicola rlwdinoyastra, Drapiez, Ann. Gen. Des. Sci. Phys. Bruxelles, Tom. II., p. SiO (1S19). 

 Erythrodryas rhodinogaster, Gould, Bds. Austr , fol , Vol. III., pi. 1 (1848); id., Handbk. Bds. 



Austr., Vol. I., p. 27G (186.5). 

 Petrceca rhodinogastra, Sharpp, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 170 (1879). 



Adult .male — General colour above slaty-black: lesser and median wingcoverts like the back, the 

 greater series hlackish-brown ; quills blackish-brown, the secondaries with a large white spot at the base 

 of the inner webs, and a sinall indistinct buffy-broion spot near the centre of the outer u-eh, and another 

 near the tip, these spots also extending on to the inner primaries; tail feathers blackish-brown, 

 externally margined with slaty-black; a small spot on the forehead white; sides of the head and 

 throat s'aty-black: remainder of the under surface rose-pink; vent and under tail coverts tehite; 

 bill black, yellowish horn-col unr at the base of the lower mandible in some specimens; legs and feet 

 blackish-brown, soles of feet ochraceous ; iris black. Total length in the flesh 52 inches, wing 2-7, 

 tail 2-2, bill 35, tarsus ()-S. 



Adult female — General colour above olive-brown ; lesser and median, wing-coverts like the 

 back, the greater series dark brown, slightly washed with olive; quills dark brown, crossed on 

 their outer webs with tivo conspicuous bands of rich buff, the secondaries having a large spot of white 

 near the base of their inner webs; tail dark brown, the lateral feathers paler: a small spot on the 

 forehead white ; all the under surface pale brown, the flanks slightly tinged with olive: centre of the 

 abdomen and iinder tail-coverts dull white, tinged with buff. 



Distribution. — Victoria, South .Vustralia, Tasmania. 

 ^-igS^HE Pink-breasted Robin is an inhabitant of the humid mountain ranges and gullies of 

 ±. Eastern and Southern Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. It is more freely 

 distributed over the latter island, specimens in the collection being obtained by Mr. George 

 Masters at Brown's River. Several beautiful specimens have also been received in the flesh 

 from Mr. E. D. Atkinson of Waratah, Mount Blschoff. I first observed this species in the 

 moist scrubs and fern gullies of South Gippsland, my attention being directed to it by its low 

 monotonous note. This note, which is easily imitated, closely resembles "tick, tick, tick," 

 and enables one to allure any birds within call in the vicinity in which it is uttered. Usually it 



