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instances grasses ; the outside held together with cobwebs, 

 and sparingly speckled over with mouse-eared lichen and 

 small pieces of bark hanging loosely about it ; the inside of 

 the nest is generally lined with leaves, but occasionally with 

 portions of the broad blades of grasses. It is generally 

 placed in the fork of some low tree in an open or exposed 

 part of the brush, is a neat structure, and sometimes so 

 nearly resembles the bark of the tree upon which it is 

 constructed, as to be scarcely detectible. The eggs are 

 usually two in number, of a bright apple-green, speckled and 

 spotted all over with chestnut-brown and blackish brown, the 

 latter tint being much less conspicuous than the former; 

 they are nine lines long by seven and a half lines broad. 



It is not migratory, and so far as is known, is confined to 

 the southern and eastern portion of the country. 



The sexes are very similar in colour ; but the female is 

 somewhat smaller in size, and has the rump olive instead of 

 yellow : the young on leaving the nest has the plumage 

 streaked and spotted very similar to that of young Robins, 

 but obtains the plumage of the adult at an early period. 



Head and all the upper surface, wings and tail, with the 

 exception of the rump, very dark grey; chin white; all the 

 under surface and rump wax-yeUow ; irides, bill, and feet 

 black. 



Sp. 176. EOPSALTRIA GRISEOGULARIS, Gould. 



Grey-breasted Robin. 



Eopsaltria griseogularis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part v, p. 144. 

 Muscicapa georgiana, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, pi. c5. fig. 4. 

 Bam-boore, Aborigines of the lowland districts of Western Australia. 



Eopsaltria griseogularis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. ill. 

 pi. 12. 



The Uojjsaltria griseogularis is abundant in every part of 

 the colony of Swan River, inhabiting thickets and all spots 



