xEsrs A.vv A(,(;.v o/' m s/ h-.ifj.i.v b/a-ds. 263 



Nfst. — Cup-shaped, outwoidly couiposed of small sticks, with finer 

 oues inside, and lined with gniss-like fibres ; usually placed on the 

 gi-ound neai- tlie fool of a tree, tiie nest being suiToundcd with dead 

 leaves heaped up to the level of tiie rim. Dimensions across the egg 

 cavity 4A inches (Gould). 



E(j(js. — Clutch, two ; regular oval in shape, and of a very light 

 stone-gi'cy ; thickly covered with small umber blotches, which increase 

 in size and ax'c more thickly pla<;ed on the larger end. Dimensions in 

 inches: I'O x '7 (Gould). 



Uhservatioiix. — The Eastern Scrub Robin has, up to the present, 

 not been discovered out of tiie Cape York and Gulf of Carpentaria 

 districts. 



Gould records ; " Perhaps one of the most interesting birds discovered 

 by me in the bnishes of South Australia was a species of tlus form, 

 to which I gave the name of Ui'ytiKKvdes hruniieopi/gia ; this second 

 species of the genus is an inhabitant of the north-east coast." That 

 author then quotes from Macgillivray s notes, from which I have culled 

 the description of the nest and eggs of the eastern bird. 



Macgillivray found the nest on the 17th November, 1849, about 

 five or six miles inland from Cape York, whilst traversing a thin open 

 scrub of small saphngs glowing in a stony giound thickly covered with 

 dead leaves. The two eggs were placed side by side, with the large 

 end of one opposite the small end of the other. After watching the 

 nest for some time, one of the owners appeared and was shot. 



The poor bird, with sudden jerks over the gi'oimd, hopped up quite 

 close to the obsci'V'er, and so met its doom in the interests of science, 

 its skin becoming the type of a new species. 



Nearly fifty years have elapsed since John Macgillivray found the 

 original nest, and up to the present a second one has not been taken, 

 or if so, it has not been recorded. 



215. — Hylacola pykuhopygia. Vigors and Horsfield. — (205) 

 CHESTNUT-RUMPED GROUND WREN. 



Figure. —Gould : Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iii., pi. 39. 



Reference. — Cat. Birds Brit Mus.. vol. vii., p. 346. 



Previous Descriptions of Eggs — Ramsay: Proc. Linn. See, N.S. Wales, 



vol. ii., p. 108 (1878): Campbell: Southern Science Record, 



{1883). 



Gcdi/rii [ihircil Dixfriliution. — South Queensland, New South Wales, 

 Victoria, South and West Austraha. 



Xrst. — A loose structure, composed of narrow strips of bark, grasses, 

 and rootlets (which can be scarcely said to be interwoven), and with 

 which it is chiefly lined, with the addition of a few feathers. It is 



