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been confirmed by subsequent observers. Mr. Gould, in the " Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London," figures and describes a nest and egg of this species, but by some oversight 

 the artist has represented two eggs in the nest instead of one, which is laid by this bird for a 

 sitting. At the present time it is not uncommon in the dense brushes of the Tweed River. 

 Formerly it used to be plentiful about Taranya Creek, a tributary of the Richmond River, and 

 there is a fine series of these birds in the Australian Museum collection that were obtained in 

 that locality. Mr. A. Meston informs me that the farthest north in Queensland that he has 

 procured this species is Mount Tamborine and the head waters of the Coomera River, about 

 forty miles south of Brisbane. 



To give an account of its powers of mimicry, habits and food would only be to repeat what 

 has been said of either of the preceding species of this genus. 



A nest found during July, 1895, in the scrubs of the Tweed River, was built close to the 

 ground in a buttress of a giant Fig-tree. It was a large dome-shaped structure, outwardly formed 

 of sticks and twigs, dried ferns, mosses and black hair-like rootlets, the bottom of the nest inside 

 being lined with the downy feathers of the Meniira. This nest was partially concealed by debris, 

 but the entrance was not sheltered in any way, the egg lying clearly exposed to view at the 

 bottom of it. The egg is of a purplish-brown ground colour, indistinctly spotted with dull 

 blackish-brown markings, which are confluent on the larger end, and there form a well-defined 

 cap. Length 2*45 x i'72 inches. Two eggs in Mr. George Savidge's collection, taken in the 

 brushes of the Brunswick River, in North-eastern New South Wales, during July 1899, vary in 

 shape and colour. One is oval in form, and of a pale vinous-brown ground colour with freckles, 

 short streaks, and irregular-shaped markings of different shades of brown, which are larger and 

 more numerous on the thicker end, where they form an irregular zone, and in some places 

 confluent patches. Length 2-46 x i'67 inches. The other is a short oval in form, and of a dull 

 dark olive-brown ground colour, almost uniformly marked, except on the larger end, with dull 

 indistinct blackish-brown irregular shaped spots and blotches, which are scarcely distinguishable 

 from the ground colour. Length 2-35 x 1-72 inches. 



Like the two preceding species the breeding season of Prince Albert's Lyre-bird is during 

 the late autumn and winter months. 



