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Duriii",' igo8-9 Messrs. G. and J. Sharp found this species breeding; freely in the scrubs 

 around iivelyn and Atherton, forminL; an open cup-shaped nest of leaves and strips of bark, 

 lined with rootlets, and placed in the thin fork of a low tree or in a mass of vines, usually at no 

 great heiL;ht from the ground. Two eggs was invariably the number laid for a sitting. They 

 are oval, swollen oval, or elongate-oval in form, some specimens being rather pointed at the 

 smaller end, others much rounded and almost an ellipse in form, the shell being close-grained, 

 smooth and lustrous. Typically they are of a dull white ground colour, which is more or less 

 obscured by freckles and irregular-shaped markings of pale brown, together with a few very faint 

 underlying markings of pale inky-grey. On some specimens they are fairly evenly distributed 

 over the surface, in others they predominate towards the thicker end, where they form a more 

 or less well-defined cap or zone. On some specimens the markings are more rounded in form, 

 and are of a clear pale red or reddish-brown hue. A set of two taken by Mr. J. Sharp near 

 Atherton, on the 2Sth September, 1909, measure : — Length (A) i-i') x o-8 inches; (B) i-i x 

 0'8 inches. Another set of two taken in the above locality on the 15th December, 1909, 

 measure; — Length (A) 1-14 x 0-78 inches; (B) 1-15 x o'8 inches. 



The breeding season commences in September, and continues until the end of January. 



Graucalus lineatus. 



S AV A I N 8 U N ' S C U (.' K U OS H R I K E . 



Ccb/i'/iyrif: liueata, Swainson, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., p. 4tj(i. 



Grducalns mvainso-iiii, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. VII., pi. 58 (1848) ; id., Handbk. lids. Austi-., 

 Vol. I., p. 197 (1865). 



Grancaliin line<itus, Sliarpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 40 (I 87 'J). 



Adult male. — (Jeimral culuur above, incliidou/ /Jtn head, dark J'reach.-grey, becoming slujlillij 

 paler oil the rinnp ami iipjier tail-coeerts ; tipper nnnij-coverls like the back, the greater series narroivly 

 edged nnlh ichite on their imter icebs ; quills black, the, primaries narroivly inarijiiieil externally 

 with dark frencli-yrey for tliree-fonrtlis of their length, the outer ?i:ebs of the secoudaries more broadly 

 tnargi/ued ivilh the same cobjur, increasing in extent towards the innermost secondaries, the extreme 

 edge of all the ijnills, bnt more towards the tips of the outer primaries, white ; tail-feathers black, washed 

 icith grey at the base ; lores, feathers i-n front of the eye, and the extreme base of forehead black ; chin, 

 throat, cheeks, sides of neck and fore-neck dark french-grey .• remaiiider of tlie under surface and the 

 under tail-coverts Iransversel y barred wit/i narrotv alternate bands of black and wliite ; " bill black ; 

 legs and feet black ; iris yelloirish-irhife" (Olive). y\ital length '^J inches, wing 5'S, tail Jpl, bill 0-7, 

 tarsus O'ih). 



Ain.!l-,T FKMALK — iSiiiiilar in plumage to the male. 



Distribution. — Queensland, New South Wales. 



C?A. WAINSON'S Cuckoo-Shrike is chiefly an inhabitant of the coastal districts of the greater 

 vZ? portion of Eastern Queensland and North-eastern New South Wales. In the Australian 

 Museum Collection there are specimens procured from Queensland by Mr. E. A. C. Olive, at 

 Cooktown, by Messrs. E. J. Cairn and Robt. Grant on different parts of the Bellenden Ker 

 Range, by the late Mr. Kendal Broadbent at Cairns and the Darling Downs, and by Mr. George 

 Masters at Wide Bay. From North-eastern New South Wales there are specimens from the 

 Tweed, Richmond and Clarence Rivers, and Mr. H. Grant informs me that in October, 1910, 

 he shot one of these birds at Nelson's Bay, Port Stephens. 



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