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one hundred and thirty to one htuidied and hity miles of tlie same place, which was in the 

 nei^hboiiihood of Mudgee." 



I he eggs vary from o\al to ellipse, some inclinm;^ to an elongate, others to a swollen form, 

 the shell being thin, \ ery finely granulated, with occasionally a few limy excrescences here and 

 there, and lustreless. When first deposited they are pure white, but soon loose their pristine 

 whiteness, becoming soiled or stained with the materials of which the mounds are composed. 

 Thirteen eggs in the .'\ustralian Museum Collectiun, taken by ]>r. E. P. Ramsay in November, 

 1866, from an egg-mound on Taranya Creek, a branch of the Richmond River, New South 

 Wales, measure ; — Length (A) 3-55 x 2-33 inches; (B) 3-6 x 2-4.! inches; (C) 3-55 ^ -'4 

 inches; (0)3-27 x 2-43 inches; ( l-^) 3-5() x 2-4 inches; (F)3-o5 x 2-25 inches; ((i) 3-58 x 

 2-27 indies; (H)3'58 x 2-39 inches; (I)3''"i < 2-4 inches ; (J) 3-47 x 2-47 inches ; (K) 3-65 x 

 2-45 inches; (L) 3-53 x 2-55 inches ; (M) 3-(i7 x 2-3 inches, liight eggs taken on the 12th 

 L)eceml)er, 1906, by Mr. George Sa\'id;;e, in Carnham scrub, Upper Clarence District, measure : — 

 Length (A) 3-47 x 2-4 inches; (B) 3-67 x 2-49 inches; (C) 3-47 x 2-43 inches; (1-^)3-5') x 

 2-39 inches; (E) 3-55 x 2-32 inches; (F) 375 x 2-38 inches; (0)3-59 x 2-34 inches ; (H) 3-6 

 X 2-51 inches. 



The eggs are usually deposited in the nesting-mound from the latter end of September until 

 the beginning of January, and sometimes as late as March ; nesting-mounds containing the full 

 complement of eggs are, however, more common in November and December. An instance of 

 late breeding is given in the following n(jte 1 received from the late Mr. George ISarnard, of 

 Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, (Queensland, under date 28th August, 1889: — "'rali-galliis latliaiiii has 

 been laying all the winter, a most unusual circumstance. .Almost every day eggs are brought 

 ill by the blacks, and we have now three JJrush Turkey chick's running in the garden. I should 

 have thought the cold weather would have prevented hatchiiiL;, but the chicks seem to do well." 



S u 1) - c) r d c r P 1 1 a s i a x a . 

 Family PHASIANID^. 



C3erj.-u.s OOTXJI^nsri^^. M..hri„y. 

 Coturnix pectoralis. 



!sTl'liI!LE (JUAIL. 



Coturnix jii'r/ondix, (_ioul(l, f'roc. Zool. .Soc, 1837, p. '"-^ ; ii/., Bds. Aiistr., fol. Vol. V., jil. 8S 

 (1848); „/., llaiMlbk. lids. Austr., Vol. 11., ]>. 190 (18(;.')); Grant, Oat. Hds. llrit. Mus., Vol. 

 XXII., p. -211 (1S0;'.J: Sliarpe, HaiuM, I'.ds., Vol. J,, p. 31 (ISDil). 



Al)tii;i' .MAi.K. — ('rairti <if Ihf hraii hiiaI ?«(/»■ hUirk, •acli Jfiatlii;)- li]ii<iil iiilh Irriiivn : a line do'vu 

 III)' ci'ii/ri' of tlie Inad am/ <i}i<i'lii'r urer pac/i fi/i', and fxtinidnnj on. lo /he .s/r/cs- 0/ the linid neck, ivlnle 

 or hiiffii-irliitr ; mantle reildisJi-liroirn n-illi o, >/ellon'is/i-n-/iite lonceohitr a/ri/ie doivn tlie centre of each 

 leather, ami erenli/ hlotchrd on eitlor sid,- n-ith hhick; reniain.der of the ii/i/ier nurfnce blackinh-broicu 

 transrersel 1/ barred ?nlth bn/fij irlnti , exce/il on the centre of the feathers, irhich hare yelloiinsh-n-h.iti- 

 lanreolatr strijus like the oiantle ; qnjlh /iron:u ; ojtper n-in'/-corert.^ t/rei/ish iiron'ii and marked like 

 the back : lorrs, throat, and ear corerts bnli', tin- latter brmru nt thf li/is ; on tlo- centre of the cheat a 

 block ]>ntch ; feat Iocs on tin' siiles ,if the dost, thr Irreitst and the abdom'u n-hite streaked with black 

 doicn the centre: loii-er llank feittlo-cs riitoiis-hn/f mottleil ntith black, n'nd harin;/ a broad ichite shaft 

 stripe; bill deij) bl nish bliok at tin- base, jiassinij into black tiear tin- ti/i; bujs and feet lleshi/-n-/nfe ,■ 

 iris lin-.el. '/',,tal li-vi/th / ■ .'-'i i'nches, icinij ./'-.'>, tail I'S. Iiill <>■■'>, tarsus (lU. 



