314 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



tained two young ones, wliicli I looked at every day until they 

 were half fledged, when they disappeared, having probably 

 been taken out by the old birds, as I observed them in the 

 neighbourhood for four days afterwards." More recently some 

 eggs of this bird (which is said to lay two) have been 

 sent to me from New South Wales, and may be thus de- 

 scribed : — 



They are lengthened and elegant in form, about an inch 

 and an eighth in length by thirteen-sixteenths of an inch in 

 breadth, and are greenish white, sparingly dotted with black 

 and greyish black, the latter colour appearing as if beneath 

 the surface of the shell, and the spots being most numerous 

 at the larger end. In some specimens the markings assume 

 the form of commas, small oblique dashes, and crooked 

 Hebrew-like characters, reminding one somewhat of the mark- 

 ings of the eggs of the Buntings. 



The male has the head, ear-coverts, chin, and breast black ; 

 a large patch of white on each side of the neck, all the upper 

 surface, wings, flanks, and base of the tail-feathers olive-green ; 

 the remaining portion of the tail-feathers black, except that the 

 three lateral feathers on each side are tipped with white ; under 

 surface olive-brown, some of the feathers on the centre of the 

 abdomen tipped with white, and forming a conspicuous irre- 

 gular patch ; irides brownish red ; bill, inside and out, and 

 base of the tongue black ; feet reddish brown. 



Sp. 183. PSOPHODES NIGROGULARIS, Gould. 



Black-throated Psophodes. 

 Psophodes nigrogularis, Gould in Proc. of ZooL Soc, part xii. p. 5. 



Psophodes ni^ognlaris, Gould, Birds of ^ Australia, fol., vol. iii. 

 pi. 16. 



The addition of a second species to the genus Psophodes 

 will be hailed with pleasure by every one who makes the 

 science of ornithology a matter of study ; nor will its discovery 



