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age height \va> 12 inches, some slicks longer. Xo arching was 

 shown at the top of the walls, the opening there being fully 5 

 inches. The bower was situated under a bu^hy tree ( Tarietia ? '. 

 and near a bit of tussock and .some ferns. 



5th June. Found bower No. 3 levelled to the ground. Xoled 

 dark-blue Satin at Burunda Creek, and found neat, small play- 

 ground among low ferns in jungle opposite. Visited bower No. 

 4. To my suri)rise I found it reconstructed, the platform newly 

 laid with long, dry grass-stalks, and a fresh blue flower and 

 about a dozen Ranksia leaves, besides (jther decorations, on it. 

 The bird itself appeared close by in a bush, but departed again 

 on seeing me. 



6th June. \'isited Palm Creek on the southern border of the 

 Park ; an ideal haunt of Lyre-Birds and Satin-Birds, both of 

 which were seen. Four or five of the calls of the latter were 

 imitated by the Lyre-Birds. 



Descriptions of Australian Eggs new to Science 



r.v II. L. WlllTl'.. C.l-.A.O.l'.. !;elltrces. Scon-, X.S.W. 



Prince Edward's Lyre Bird [Menura superba edwardi) 



Egg rather a lengthened oval in shape, surface of shell, coarse 

 granulated, and slightly glossy. 



( Iround colour of a light greyish-olive, over which are very 

 sparingly scattered, spots and hair lines of dark-brown and black- 

 ish-brown ; the smaller or ])ointed section of the egg being almost 

 devoid of markings. It measures in inches 2.28 x 1.62, and is 

 smaller than eggs of any other of the Mcniiridce in my collection. 



It was collected in the Stanthorpe district, Queensland, in per- 

 fectly oj^en country, during 1919; the large-domed nest being 

 ])laced up from the ground on the side of a large granite boulder. 



The specimen was kindly forwarded to me by 'Sir. A. H. Chis- 

 holm, of Brisbane, having been collected bv Dr. Spencer Roberts 

 of Stanthorpe. 



See Mr. Chisholm's article on this new bird in The Emu, 

 \o\. XX., pp. 221-2^. 



The Dusky Flyeater [Pseudogerygone tenebrosa) 



In The Emu, \o\. X\'., p. 250, I described eggs of what I 

 thought to be Pseudogerygone magnirostris uhitlocki, Mathews, 

 but which are now found, after a further examination of skins, 

 to be Pseudogerygone tenebrosa, Hall. 



The note in The Emu referred to describes, therefore, the t\i-c 

 clutch of Pseudogeiygone tenebrosa. Hall. 



