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are absent, and similar to an example from Campbelltown, New South Wales, marked a female. 

 Other specimens in the Australian Museum collection, marked females, are undistinguishable 

 from the male. Subsequently Mr. Ashby sent me the following note : — " I skinned a female 

 specimen oi Eurostopus albigularis from Cowra Creek, near Bredbo, New South Wales, in which 

 the white spots on the primaries are absent." 



The White-throated Nightjar makes no nest, but deposits a single egg on the bare ground, 

 or on fallen dead leaves, sometimes on the side of a gravelly ridge, or near a log or stump. At 

 all times the egg is difficult to discover, as it assimilates so closely to its environment. The 

 female sits very close, trusting to escape observation by crouching down and remaining quiet, 

 sometimes permitting herself to be almost trodden upon. Mr. George Savidge, of Copman hurst, 

 on the Clarence River, has been more successful than any one I know of in finding the eggs of this 

 species. He forwarded me the accompanying photograph of an egg he found lying on some dead 

 Eucalyptus leaves, with which were interminsfled some scales of bark, on the 12th December, 



NESTINC-PLACK AND EGG OF THK WHITK THROATED NIGHTJAR. 



1890, and sent the following note :— " Do you know that Euvostopus albigularis perches on trees at 

 times ? The bird belonging to this nesting place and egg flew round several times, and then came 

 back and settled on a thin dead and nearly upright branch of a tree close by. It remained there 

 for a long time, until I hunted it off." At various times I have received some very fine specimens 

 from the late Mr. George Barnard, and his son Mr. H. G. Barnard, taken by them at Coomoo- 

 boolaroo, on the Dawson River, Queensland. An egg was taken, from which the bird was 

 flushed at some distance away, by Mr. C. G. Johnston, on stony ground near the head of Middle 

 Harbour, on the 15th December, 1897. Another was found by hjs brother, Mr. A. A. Johnston, 

 at Lindfield on the 8th November, 1898. The sitting bird was flushed, and together with its 

 mate perched on a tree close at hand, uttering all the time, and when flying around him, harsh 

 notes of distress, resembling the alarm notes of Halcyon sanctm. 



The egg is elliptical in form, some specimens being rather pointed at each end, the shell 

 being close-grained, smooth and slightly lustrous. Typically they are of a rich cream ground 



