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Long-billed Green Pigeon (Chalcophaps longirostris). 



This bird inhabits the northern portion of Australia, and its 

 habits are very similar to its southern ally Chalcophaps chryso-chlora. 



It is generally to be found on the ground and near streams in 



the shade of the thick vegetation. We only succeeded in finding 



one nest and tine egg, and that on 5th November, and secured 



the parent bird. The sti'ucture was very lightly built, and not 



more than ten feet from the ground, and was placed near 



the end of a thin bough ; the egg is white, and measures 



18 131. 



— X — - uich. 



16 16 



This egg has not been described before. 



Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ( Micrceca Jlavigaster), Gould. 



This little bird is found in the northern portions of Australia, 

 generally in the open forest country and is fairly plentiful, its 

 cheery note being often heard. 



Its beautiful little nest, one of the smallest of Australian 

 birds' nests, was found at Bloomfield, near Cooktown, on 25th 

 October, 1893, and I secured the parent birds. It was built on 

 the dead upper branches of a small tree, about fifteen feet from 

 the ground, and contained one partially incubated egg ; there 

 was, apparently, no room for another. It was cup-shaped, the 

 outside being covered with small pieces of bark fastened on with 

 cobwebs at the upper end and hanging, being similar in colour 

 to the bough on which it is built, making it very difficult to 

 detect. Cobwebs are also wound round the nest over the bark, 

 and also round the branch, as if to make the nest more secui'e ; 

 the rest of the structure is composed of fine shreds of bark and 

 grass, very compactly put together. It measures externally one 

 and a half inches in diameter, by thi-ee-quarters of an inch in 

 depth, and internal diameter one and a quarter inches by half 

 inch in depth. 



The egg is a greyish-white ground colour, spotted with 



irregular shaped markings of various shades of brown, with 



underlying markings of grey, especially towards the larger end. 



13 9 . 

 It measures -^ x inch. 



16 10 



This egg has not been described before. 



