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to 5000 £cet^ while below 3000 feet it is never seen except as 

 a straggler. It is a grand mocker, imitating all the birds in 

 the scrubs. It makes a great bower 8 feet high. I liave 

 never found the nest or eggs, which appear to be still 

 unknown. 



22. Sericornis citreogularis Gould (op. cit. p. 243). 

 Found at 3000 feet, and common on the mountains in the 



Brisbane scrubs. It makes a long hanging nest of moss at 

 the end of a branch. 



23. Sericornis magnirostris (Gould) (op. cit, p. 247). 

 Found at 5200 feet on Bellendeu-Ker and in the Brisbane 



scrubs. 



24. Sericornis gutturalis De Vis (op. cit. p. 252). 

 This ground-bird was originally discovered by the writer 



on Bellenden-Ker at 5200 feet. It occurs also in the 

 Herberton scrubs at 4500 feet. 



25. Orthonyx spaldingi Ramsay (op. cit. p. 252). 



On Bellenden-Ker at 5200 feet, in Herberton scrubs, and 

 over all the range from Townsville to Cooktown ; it occurs 

 on both sides of the range as far as the scrub extends, but is 

 not found at Cape York or at Brisbane. The district just 

 south of the Herbert Biver, and thence to Bloomfield, is its 

 main resort. This is a ground-bird and makes a nest like a 

 Lyre-bird, laying one almost round white e^^. 



26. PsoPHODES CREPITANS (Lath.) (op. cit. p. 265). 

 Common on the top of Bellenden-Ker (5000 feet). The 



examples procured were much smaller than those froai 

 Gippsland, where they are very large ; but the South- 

 Queensland form has the same call-note, makes the same 

 nest, and has the same habits as the other. 



27. Cracticus quoyi (Less.) (op. cit. p. 299). 



This species ascends the mountains up to 3000 feet, and is 

 found in the mangrove-swamps at the mouths of the creeks 

 and rivers all along the coast from the Herbert Biver to 

 Cape York. 



