2j4 A'JiSrs AND 6G0S Ul' AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



188. ACANTHIZA PYRRHOPYGIA, Gould. (224) 



RED-RUMPED TIT. 



Figure. — Gould; Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iii., pi. 58. 

 Reference. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. vii., p. 296. 

 Previous Descriptions uj Eggs. — Campbell : Southern Science Record 

 {18S51; North: Ausln. Mus. Cat., p. 136 (1889). 



Gcograpliical Dixtrihution. — New South Wales (interior probably), 

 Victoria, South and West Austraha. 



.Yf67. — Globular, with side entrance; composed of strips of fine bark, 

 grass, &c. ; lined inside with feathers and other soft material. Generally 

 situated in a hakca or other bush, or placed in the thick parasitical creeper 

 (Cassytha melanf/iaj, locally known as the mallee vine, which usually 

 envelopes small trees. Dimensions : breadth, 3 inches ; length, 4 inches ; 

 entrance, | inch across. 



Effff.s. — Clutch, three; short or roundish in form, but sharply pointed 

 towards one end ; texture of shell very fine ; surface shghtly glossy ; 

 colovu', warm-wliite, speckled with chestnut or reddish-brown and piu-jjlish- 

 brown, the markings inclining to form a patchy zone round the apex. 

 Dimensions in inches of a paii- : (1) '66 x -5, (2) -63 x •48. 



Uliservations. — -The Red-rumped Tit is another interior species, being 

 as far as yet ascertained restricted to the Mallee and similar scrubs in 

 Victoria and South and West Australia. Mr. Tom Carter infoi-ms me that 

 he found this little bird numerous in a white-gum flat out east from 

 Point Cloates (West Australia). A sldn of the bird was sent for 

 identification. 



I have seen and shot the Red-mrnped Tit in the Wimmera district 

 of Victoria, where I procured a nest with eggs October, 1884. The follow- 

 ing year the eggs were didy described by me before the Field Naturalists' 

 Club, and the description published. Foiu" years subsequently Mr. A. J. 

 North described similar eggs from the same district, together with the 

 nest (accomjianied by the bird), for which he was indebted to his friend 

 Mr. James Hill, of " Pine Rise,' Kewell. 



189. ACANTHIZA LINEATA, Gould. (227) 



STRIATED TIT. 



Figure. — Gould: Birds of Australia, fo!., vol. iii, pi 6i 

 Reference. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. vii., p 297. 

 Previous Descriptions of Eggs. — Ramsay: V. Z S, p. 571, with 

 pi. of nest (1866) ; Campbell: Southern Science Record (1882). 



Geographical Distribufiun. — South Queensland, New South Wales, 

 Victoria, and South Australia (probably). 



