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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



[Vol. XXVI. 



White-backed Magpie 

 Crested Shrike-Tit 

 White-throated Thickhead 

 Rufous-breasted Thickhead 

 Orange-winged Sittella 

 White-throated Tree-creeper 

 Brown Tree-creeper 

 Silver-eye 

 Mistletoe-Swallow 

 Orange-tipped Pardalote 

 Spotted Pardalote 

 Lunulated Honey-eater 

 Spinebill Honey-eater 

 White-eared Honey-eater 



White-plumed Honey-eater 

 New Holland Honey-eater 

 Crescent Honey-eater 

 Spiny-cheeked Honey-eater 

 Noisy Miner (Minah) 

 Red Wattle-bird 

 Ground-Lark 

 Spotted-sided Finch 

 Red-browed Finch 

 Raven 



White-winged Chough 

 Scarlet-breasted Robin 

 Hooded Robin 



ON THE NEST AND EGGS OF THE LARGE-TAILED 

 GRASS-WREN, AMYTIS MACBUEUS, GouLb. 



By Alfred J. North, C.M.B.O.U.. C.M.Z.S., Ornithologist to 

 the Australian Museum, Sydney.* 

 (With plate.) 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Clnb of Victoria^ 11th Jan., 1910.) 

 Mr. George Masters, Curator of the Macleay Museum, at the 

 University of Sydney, informed me that on one occasion many 

 years ago while collecting in south-western Australia on behalf 

 of the Trustees of the Australian Museum he met with a small 

 flock oi Amytismacrurus in the scrub, bobbing up and down like 

 tennis balls as they hopped over the ground only a few yards 

 away from him. Having his gun heavily loaded for wallaby, he 

 did not fire, and the opportunity to secure this species did not 

 present itself to him again. Until recently this was the only 

 instance I knew of anyone meeting with the bird since Gould 

 described it. 



Of comparatively recent years, however, this species has been 

 obtained, if Aniytis gigantura, Milligan, the Amytornis inegalurus 

 of Sharpe, be identical with it (I have pointed out elsewhere the 

 discrepancy in Gould's dimensions of Amytis macrurus in his 

 original description in the " Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society " and his " Handbook to the Birds of Australia " f), 

 while Mr. Tom Carter described it later under the name of 

 Amytwnis varia. 



During 1909 Mr. Chas, G. Gibson, Assistant Government 

 Geologist of Western Australia, sent me skins of Amytis 

 macrurus, collected near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and at 

 various times since 29th August, 1909, sent me information 

 relative to finding its nests and eggs. Three sets of their eggs 



* Contributions from the Australian Museum, by permission of the Trustees. 

 tHorn. Exped. Centr. Aust.— Zool., p. 81 (1896). 



