462 Mr. 1). Le Souef on some neic or 



nest is a beautiful structure, aud built in a thick bunch of 

 leaves aud flowers at the end of a branch of the red-flowerinoj 

 melaleuca-tree ; it is domed and very small, and is composed 

 almost entirely of the soft downy young melaleuca-leaves 

 and buds, all well bound together with cobwebs, and larger 

 leaves from the same tree are fastened on round it, almost 

 completely hiding the wonderful structure and making it 

 very difficult to see. It is lined at the bottom with a little 

 ■white down and some yellow cobwebs ; it measures — external 

 breadth 1 f inch, internal 1 ; external depth 3 inches, in- 

 ternal 2. The entrance is near the top, and without any 

 porch. The ground-colour of the egg is brown, with a slight 

 shade of pink, and with a few faint markings of a darker 

 hue, and which form a zone on the larger end, where they 

 are confluent ; it measures 0*58 X 044 inch. A short de- 

 scription of this egg appeared in the Report of the Horn 

 Expedition to Central Australia, but no particulars of the 

 nest were given. 



8. Atrichia clamosa Gould. (Noisy Scrub-bird.) 

 This active bird is found in the southern coastal districts 

 of Western Australia, where it inhabits the dense scrubs. 

 Its nest and eggs were found by Mr. J. Hasscll in October 

 1897 near Albany. He was passing along a narrow track 

 through some thick scrub, when he heard the bird uttering 

 its note ; he forced his way to the place, and when doing so 

 suddenly saw the hen bird fly out from what appeared to be 

 a bunch of grass close to his feet, but this, on examination, 

 proved to be the nest, and he has kindly sent me a description 

 of it. It was situated on the ground alongside the root of a 

 eucalyptus-tree, which was about 7 inches out of the ground, 

 and was dome-shaped and constructed of grass and rootlets, 

 with a few leaves, and lined with a white downy-looking 

 substance ; it measured — height 8^ inches, breadth 5|. It 

 contained two eggs, slightly incubated, swollen oval in sliape, 

 and w ith a ground-colour of reddish white ; the markings 

 are purplish brown, more plentiful on the larger end, where 

 they are confluent; the markings beneath the surface arc 



