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The ,™le i.Jis.inc.ly la,„e, 0..., .he female. ,l.e wihg meh.uremen. of average ad,,h 

 ,pecL.s obtained ,n ,he Hlawa.ra Disfric, Ne« South Wa,e. be,„, ^^'^^^^^^ 



winter, but I th.nk goes away dur.n,, the summer months, but cannot be certam rt, 

 readily distinguished from F. uMa in the trees. 



The nest is a large cup-shaped structure, outwardly formed of I^^J ^-J|tnps c. ba,K, p n 

 tendrds, egg-bags of spiders, and a few dead 'eaves, mterwoven and Id ^^^^^^ ^, 

 addition of spider's web; u.s.de :t >s neatly hned w.th dned ^■--;- ^^ ^j,^ ^^^^nt '■ or thistle 

 - .Hstening white -y-n from the seed-^s . .e mtroduc^ ^Co^n^^^ - _ ^_^^ _ 



;rhr;— ;;:^::; -:inofthe d. .... -- -;;;— rr:: 



gullies are thickly coated on the outs.de w.th br.ght green ^^^^^ ^^^^.^ ,;,as 



ne-ir water or in the bottom of a mountam gully, at an height varym tron , y 



Tom .i-ound. Near Sydney the LiUy-piUy ( Engcna snuthn) -^^ '';f 7'^;,"°', f '^"^^ 



';::T.;.U., ... .. trees most frequently selected as "-;-;^--^^;^t^ ^.l;; 

 Johnston, and the writer in a Lilly-p.lly at the bottom of a gully near C^^^--^ ' ^^^^^„^^„^^, 



Pymble, where I had heard a pair ot these birds, ad a ter a short ^ea ch 



Jdiscovering their nest in a Coachwood containmg two fres^ :^-^^^ZL, month, built 



. firrnrpH on Plate A 1-2, is built in a Coachwood, and was taken by i\ir. ^. o. j 

 l!T:. inches atd a half in d.p.h : .n.ernal diameter three inches, depth two .nches. 



Lcker end, where in some instances they assume the form of a zone A set taken fro t 

 above descibed nest are of a delicate fleshy-white ground colour with very -- ^^ ^ ^^ 

 mediumsized irregular shaped blotches of light red distributed over the surface of the sh 11 In 

 :rspecin.enthe;p.dominateon..th.l^end^ 



over the larger end of the shell. Length (A) 1-03 x 073 inches; (B) i o, x o, -inches. 



Air E H Lane has a set of eggs of this species in his collection with an egg of the 

 M,. L. H. Lane nas ._, Richmond River, on the gth 



Pallid Cuckoo found m the same nest. I his set was taweii 01 



December, 1902. 



