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a nest at the base of a large tree on the side of a deep gully ; 

 on going to the spot, the bird got off and ran away; he 

 pursued and captured it, when it proved to be a young 

 Menura superba ; on returning again to the spot, he found 

 the nest to be a loose structure of large sticks, and lined with 

 the fibres of the cabbage-tree leaf." 



A nest and an egg sent to me by Mr. Turner were described 

 in the 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society' for 1858 : — 



" The nest is oven-shaped in form, outwardly constructed 

 of roots, tendrils, and leaves of palms, and lined with green 

 mosses. It was about two feet in length by sixteen inches 

 in breadth, and domed over except at one end. The eggs 

 were barely two inches and a quarter in length by one inch 

 and three quarters in breadth, and of a deep purplish chocolate, 

 irregularly blotched and freckled with a darker colour. This 

 nest and egg are now in the British Museum." 



Genus PSOPIIODES, Vigors and Horsfield. 



This form is peculiar to Australia. Two species are known, 

 one of which inhabits the eastern, and the other the western 

 portion of the country. 



Sp. 182. PSOPHODES CREPITANS, %. and Horsf. 



COACH-WHIP-BIRD. 



Muscicapa crepitans, Lath. Ind. Orn., Suppl. p. 11. 



Coach-whip Honey-eater, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 187. 



Psophodes crepitans, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 329. 



Djou, Aborigines of New South Wales. 



Cormis auritus et olivaceus, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 160, and Suppl. 



p. xxvi. 

 Pica olivacea, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. xxix. p. 119. 



gularis, Wagl. Syst. Av. Pica, sp. 13. 



Dasijornis Aheillei, Less. 



Psophodes crepitans, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. ill. pi. 15. 

 This bird, so renowned for the singularity of its note, is very 



