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bark, and in one instance was lined with fine grass, and is about three inches in diameter. The 

 eggs are three in number, white, slightly longer than those oi P. punctatns, and about the same 

 breadth. I have only taken two sets of eggs, and found one nest with three young ones about 

 two or three days old. Two of the nests were taken in a gully on the southern slope of Mount 

 Nelson, near Hobart, and the third on the slope of Mount Wellington, near Glenorchy. The 

 nests with eggs were taken on the 4th December, 1882, and the 28th December, 1886; the nest 

 with young was found on the 6th January, i886. I have once seen this bird feeding four 

 young ones, but regard three eggs to be the normal number for a sitting." 



The eggs are three or four in number, varying from oval to an ellipse in form, pure 

 white, the shell being close-grained, smooth, and lustreless. A set of four taken on Mount 

 Wellington, near Hobart in October 1885, measures:— Length (A) 0-65 x 0-5 inches; (B) 0-65 

 X 0-51 inches; (C) 0-63 x 0-52 inches; (D) o-66 x 0-5 inches. A set of three in Mr. G. A. 

 Heartland's collection, received with a skin of the parent, measures: — Length (A) 0-63 x 0-5 

 inches; (B) 0-64 x 0-52 inches; (C) 0-62 x 0-5 inches. 



