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with a faint greenish tinge, marked with blotches and spots 

 of sienna, but chiefly with remarkable hair-like markings of 

 the same colour as if a person had painted on the shell 

 fanciful shapes and figures with a fine brush. Intermingled 

 are a few dull, greyish streaks. All the markings are fairly 

 distributed, being more abundant around the upper quarter; 

 (2) is similar to the other specimen, but markings less pro- 

 nounced and finer in character, with a greater proportion of 

 the dull, greyish, hair-like streaks. Dimensions in inches: — 

 (l)l-57xl'l; (2) 1-55 X 1-07. 



A second clutch is similar to the above, but has markings 

 like a net-work all over, and finer or more hair-like in char- 

 acter. Dimensions :— (1) 1-58 x 1'06 ; (2) 1*52 x 1-04. 



The eggs of the Kegent-Bird resemble, in a remarkable 

 degree, those of the Spotted Bower-Bird (Chlamydodera 

 maculata), with the slight difference that the ground-colour 

 of the eggs of the former is usually more yellowish in 

 tone. 



Observations. — The Eegent-Bird has a somewhat restricted 

 range, being chiefly confined to the sub-tropical coastal scrubs 

 of the northern portion of New South Wales and Southern 

 Queensland ; but its extreme southern limit appears to be 

 Port Jackson in the south, where the bird has been occasion- 

 ally observed, and the Fitzroy Eiver in the north. With 

 regard to the latter locality, Mr George Potts, jun., Eock- 

 hampton, wrote: "a few Eegent-Birds have made their 

 appearance during this month (December 1885) and the 

 latter end of last." I have also recorded having received 

 a skin of a young male from Duaringa, near that river. 



The Eegent-Bird, especially the adult male with glorious 

 black and golden-orange plumage, Gould has well said is 

 one of the finest of Australian birds. The youthful male 

 resembles the female ; the second year the bill is yellowish ; 

 the third year the plumage is complete. 



In November 1891, I undertook an excursion to the 

 Eichmond Eiver district. New South Wales, with a view 

 of obtaining, amongst other items, the eggs of the Eegent- 

 Bird. I was all the more anxious to obtain them, because 

 the description of the only egg of this species known was 



