34 REMARKS OX FOREGOING LIST OF AUSTRALIAN RIRDS. 



they are smaller and more dot-like nearer the thin end, where the ground colour is slightly lighter 

 in tint ; they measure as follows (A) 1 inch by 0-75 inch ; (B) 0-95 inch by 0-75. They are decidedly 

 swollen and much shorter in proportion, but otherwise like the dark variety of eggs of Sericornis 

 citreogularis. Mr. A. J. North, to whom I am indebted for many new localities for Victorian 

 and South Australian birds, took a nest of this species so far back as October 1878, at Childers, in 

 South Gippsland, Victoria, and exhibited the first specimens I had seen, at the International 

 Exhibition held in Melbourne 1880, informs me that this species was very plentiful in that district 

 up to 1881, but the numerous clearings made by the ' selectors,' have since driven the birds to 

 other parts. The eggs, he states show no difference from those here described, except that some 

 are slightly longer, and not so swollen as others. Specimens have also been recently received from 

 the scrubs clothing the Blue Mountains, within fifty miles of Sydney." 



Gerygone flavida, Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 53. 



I have lately seen specimens of a Gerygone from the North-east Coast, which seem to indicate 

 that my < ie/njy one flavida \B,o\\\y t\\e female of Mr. Gould's Gerijyone personata; but notwithstanding 

 the "-reat similarity in size and plumage, further proof will be necessary, as we have lately received 

 the adults, male and female, of G. flavida, shot on taking their nest and eggs, and three males 

 examined are exactly alike in plumage to the female ; but it is not improbable that the young males 

 of G. personata resemble the females in plumage, and breed before attaining the adult male livery. 

 No specimens, however, in the plumage of the adult male of G. j^rrsonata have been yet obtained 

 from Rockingham Bay. 



Platycercus pennantii far. nigrescens, Ramsay. 

 This northern variety may be distinguished by its smaller size, thicker and more robust bill, and 

 the deeper tint of crimson in its plumage; in some a few violet feathers appear on the chest; those 

 on the head hind neck and back are almost all black, which colour extends also on to the cheeks in 

 one specimen. Hah. Bellenden-Ker Range, Queensland. 

 Measurements of P. pennantii var. nigrescens, Ramsay : — 



A B 



5S. ... 12*3 inches. 



OS „ 

 0-5 „ 

 0-6 „ 

 7 

 6-3 „ 



An averaged sized STpecimen oi Platyceirus pennaiUii, Latham, measures : — Total length, 13 inches 

 bill from forehead, 075 inches; height at nostril, 04 inch ; width at nostril, 0-6 inch ; tail, 7-5 

 inch ; wing, G-8 inch. 



