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while staying in tlie Toodyay District in tlie month of October, found the nest of this species 

 among the topmost and weakest perpendicular branches of a Eucalyptus, at a height of fifty feet ; 

 it was of a deep cup-shaped form, composed of the stringy-bark of the gum tree, and lined with 

 fine grasses, the whole matted together externally with cobwebs."- 



A set of three eggs in Mr. G. A. Keartland's collection taken by Mr. E. J. Harris, near 

 Bunbury, Western Australia, are o\al in form, one specimen being slightly elongated and 

 somewhat sharply pointed at the smaller end, the shell being close-grained smooth and lustreless. 

 They are almost pure white, over which is sprinkled dots and spots of slaty-grey, slaty-black 

 and sepia, the markings predominating at the larger end, where on two of them are fairly 

 well defined zones; on the other the principal markings are in the form of small blotches, 

 which are irregularly scattered over the larger end. Length (A) 0-89 x 0-64 inches; (B) 

 o-g X 0-62 inches; (C) 0-97 x 0-67 inches. The eggs of this species are indistinguishable 

 from those of the Eastern Australian representative of this genus, Fahiiiiailus fiviifntus. 



C3-erL-u.s OISEOIO-A., GouUl. 

 Oreoica cristata. 



CRESTED BELL-BIRD. 

 Turdus cristatus, Lewiti, Bds. New Holl. pi. 9 (test,' Uoukl). 

 Oreoica yutturalis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol.. Vol. II., pi. 81 (1848). 



Oreoica crUnta, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 231 (18G.5); Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 

 Vol. VIII., p. 174 (188.3); Sharpe, Haud-1 Bds., Vol. IV., p. 303, (1903). 



Adult .male — General colour above brown; wings 

 brown, the basal portion of the innerviost primaries 

 indistinctly edged on the outer web with dull yellotvish- 

 green, the innermost secondaries margined with whity- 

 broivn: upper tail-coverts brown, indistinctly margined 

 with buff'y-fawn ; tail feathers dark brown margined 

 externally with dull wax-yellow; forepart of the head and 

 a broad stripe down tlie centre extending beyond the 

 nape black: sides of crown grey; ear-coverts and sides 

 of neck brownish-grey ; a large loral patch white; chin 

 and upper portion of tite throat white, bordered by a line of 

 black feathers extending from the gape below the eye and 

 /nining wiili the black feathers of the lower throat; foreneck 

 atid chest brownish-black; centre of the breast and abdomen 

 white; sides of breast greyish-brown, tinged with sandy- 

 ^'"ff>' flanks, vent and under tail-coverts sandy-buff; bill 

 blach: legs and fe-t dark horn colour; his bright orange. Total length in the flesh 9 inches, wing 

 If-2, tail S-S, bill 0-7, tarsus 1. 



Adult FEJiXLV.-Resembh'S the male, but has the foreh<-ad, lores, and feathers below the eye and 

 cheeks brown; centre of the upper throat dull white, and the fore neck and chest broivn. 



Distribution— QMeens\^.nd, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Central Australia, 

 Western and North-western Australia. 



CRESTED ISELL-IilRD. 



* Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. L, p 230. (1S65). 



