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iVESTS AXD tGGS 01- AUSTRALIAX BIRDS. 



invariably in low scrub bushes. Nest takeu at Highfields, north-east from 

 Toowoomba, November, 1875." 



Gould states he had little opportimity of observing the Rufous Fautail 

 diiring the breeding season, but he frequently foxmd its deserted wine-glass- 

 shaped nest, which bore a general resemblance to that of the White-shafted 

 variety. In cue of them he foimd a single egg, wliich he duly described. 



Breeding months November, December and January, and in favourable 

 seasons as late as Febmary, Mr. B. E. Bardwell having taken eggs in the 

 Lilydale district 18th of that month. 



Mr. S. W. Moore (Sydney), took a pair of eggs of the Rufous Fantail 

 at Westwood on the 18th January, and ten days aftenvards the birds had 

 built another nest and laid therein a set of eggs. 



90. — Rhipidura dryas, Gould. — (137) 

 WOOD FANTAIL. 



Figure. — Gould (Sharpe) ; Birds of New Guinea, vol. ii., pi 32. 

 Reference. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol iv., p 322 



Geographical Di.ftrihution.—Noithera Territoi-y and North Queens- 

 land (?). 



Nest and £(/(/>>. — Undescribed. 



Observations. — This bird frequents the northern parts of the Continent, 

 and differs from the Rufous Fantail, as Gould points out, in its smaller 

 size, in ha\'ing its dark-gi-ey tail feathers more largely tipped with white 

 and fringed with rufous at the base only, and haring the breast white, 

 crossed by a distinct black band, and devoid of the dark spotted markings 

 seen on the chest of its ally. 



91. — Rhipidura setosa, Quoy and Gaimard (138) 



NORTHERN FANTAIL. 



Figure.— Gonld : Birds of .-Vustralia, fol., vol. ii., pi. 85. 



Reference. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iv., p. 329. 



Previous Descriftions of Eggs. — Ramsay :J Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.Wales, 



vol. i. 2nd ser., p-411 (1886); Campbell: Victorian Naturalist 



(1887). 



Geographical Distribution. — North-west Australia, Northern Tenitory, 

 and North Queensland ; also New Guinea and adjacent islands, Waigiou, 

 New Ireland, and Duke of York Island. 



A^est. — ^Resembles those of the other members of the genus, but, if 

 anything, is more loosely coustnicted, and with a more lengthened (two or 

 three inches) tail-like appendage hanging from beneath the little cup-shaped 



