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waited for the birds to return, and in about lialf an hour saw one of the birds fly to a tree about 

 ten feet away from the nest. It sat there for ah(jut ten minutes, then llew to within a couple of 

 feet of the nest, sat for another ten minutes, and then flew on to the nest. As soon as he moved 

 it dropped from the nest and fluttered away throuf,'h the undergrowth, so he secured the nest 

 and ei^'gs and waited till the bird returned and shot her. The note is a harsh ' chee-chee-chee,' 

 very seldom uttered. When watching them they would often (ly to within a few feet of where 

 he was sitting, and cling motionless to the side of a tree, a habit identical with that of the 

 Vellow-breasted Robin of Victoria." 



The nest, a deep cup-shaped structure, is built between a thick and a thin npri-ht stem of 

 a Lawyer \'me, being supported by the long spines of the former and by being partially worked 

 around the latter ; it is composed throughout of Hue strips of bark, bark fibre, portions of leaves 

 of the Lawyer \'ine and thin scales of bark, slightly held together on the outside with cobwebs, 

 and having worked into it here and there a few small pieces of ureen moss, the inside beinf 

 lined, more particularly near the rim, with fine fibre ; externally it measures three inches in 

 diameter by two inches and a half in depth, the inner cup measuring two inches in diameter by 

 two inches in depth. 



The egss are two in number for a sitting, oval in form, the shell being close-grained, smooth 

 and slightly lustrous, of a faint bluish-green ground colour, which is fairly uniformly and thickly 

 sprinkled over with dots, freckles and small irregular-shaped spots of varied shades of dull red 

 and chestnut-brown, with which are intermin,<;led a few similar underlying markings of faint 

 violet and purplish-grey. The set of two in Dr. W. Macgillivray's collection, taken on the ist 

 December, 1911, measures :— Length (A) 075 x 0-57 inches; (3)075 x 0-56 inches. These 

 eggs resemble very much small specimens of one of the varieties of those of EopsaUria austyalis. 



Cinclosoma marginatum. 



CINNAMON-CHESTED UROUND THRUSH. 



Cinchmimd marijinatam,^\\%rYie, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. VI[., p. 336 (1S83); id., Haud-1. 

 Bds., Vol. IV., p. 2 (1903); North, Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 322 (1909). 



Adult m.^le. — ".S'ii/aVrt/- /o Cin'closoma CAsr.\NOTHOR.A,\, hut <Hsriniiiii$hed hy t.h>' colour of its 

 under tail-coverts, fvhich are black, mar(jiued with white ami washed with brown near the base : the 

 breast-band also is paler and more of a cinnamonrufous, as are likewise the flanks,- the latter are 

 separated from the rrldtr abdomen by a Hue of black feathers, as in the other CinclosoMATA, and this 

 appears not to be the case in. C. castanothokax. Total hiiyth 9-5 incites, wing S-S, tail Jf-1 tarsus 

 1'2 "* 



Aduf.t frmalk. — General colour aboce rich cinnamon-brown,, the scapulars and tipper tail- 

 coverts si ightlij darker and Itaritig narroiv indistinct blackisli shaft-streaks ; the inner series of the 

 upper winy-coverts like the back, the outer series black, largeli/ tipped with white, some of the outer 

 greater coverts strongly washed with cinnamon-bron-n : t/nillsflark brown, the middle of the outer ivebs 

 of the primaries edged n-ith ivhite and tinged with cinnamon brotcit, the secondaries broadly margined 

 tvithrich cinnamon-brown; central pair of tail-feathers rich cittnamon-brown, the apical portion 

 brownish near the shift ; the remaitider black, largely tipped with white ; forehead, crown of the head, 

 nape and sides of the neck brown, with a faint cinnamon wash; lores blackish; ear-coverts dark 

 brown ; stripe over the eye reaching on to the sides of the nape, the chin and throat light cinnamon- 

 brown ; the fore-neck a slightly clearer brown; remainder of t he under surface rich cinnamon-broivn ; 

 down the centre of the breast and the abdomen a broad, irregular, whitish streak reaching to the vent ■ 

 thighs pale broivn with darker brown centres to the feathers ; under tail-coverts rich cinnamon-brown, 



* Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 336 (18S3). 



