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Fantailed Cuckoo deposit its egg in an open nest. However, 

 three other instances were observed by Mr. A. E. Brent, 

 Tasmania, where the Fantailed Cuckoo is particularly partial to 

 the covered nests of Sericornis, S. humilis. They occurred 

 respectively in the open nests of the Black-capped Honey-eater, 

 M. melanocephahts, the Dusky Robin, P. vittata, and the Wood 

 Swallow, A. sordidus. 



The following is Mr. Brent's note about the Dusky Robin's 

 nest: — "I took a set of Dusky Robin's eggs from a nest built 

 on a stump near home. In passing the place some days 

 afterwards, I pointed it out to a friend. Going forward and 

 inspecting the position, he exclaimed, ' Here is a find !' Upon 

 going up to the nest too I found a beautiful specimen of the 

 egg of our Fantailed Cuckoo. There is no doubt about this bird 

 having deposited her egg there after I had robbed the nest." 



In Tasmania a fresh egg of the Fantailed Cuckoo was found 

 deposited on a bare stump. Doubtless it had been laid there by 

 the bird, which was probably disturbed before it could convey it 

 away to some suitable nest. 



This cuckoo, as shown in Dr. Ramsay's statement, has been 

 known to deposit its egg in a nest containing other species 

 of cuckoo's egg. Here is a couplet from Mr. Brent's Tasmanian 

 field notes which he kindly furnished me with : — 



"I had the exceptionally good fortune to find a nest of our 

 little Browntail, Acanthiza, containing two eggs of the parent 

 bird, together with one egg each of the Fantailed, Bronze, and 

 Narrow-billed Bronze Cuckoos — a nice lot, and all fresh." 



" In December last (1895) we came across a nest of the little 

 Browntail in some short bushes, containing two eggs of the 

 Acanthiza and one of the Bronze Cuckoo. Having nothing to 

 carry them home in, we left them for three days, and upon 

 returning for them we found the nest contained only one 

 Acanthiza's egg, one Bronze Cuckoo's, and also one Fantailed 

 Cuckoo's ; the other shell of the Acanthiza's egg we picked up 

 just outside of the nest." 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW VICTORIAN MOTH. 



By J. A. Kershaw. 



This moth, belonging to the Geometridas, does not appear to 

 have been yet described ; I have, therefore, named it Pseudo- 

 terpna singularis, from the peculiar position assumed by it when 

 resting. 



Pseudoterpna singularis, n. sp. — Male and female. — Head 

 and thorax grey, face whitish. Palpi white, blackish laterally ; 

 terminal joint moderate, rather slender ; antennse dark grey ; 



