1875. } BIRDS FROM QUEENSLAND. 591 
Cardwell. Poephila gouldie was described to me very correctly, 
and said to have been met with on the tablelands about 30 miles 
from Waterview; I did not find any specimens myself. 
109. Prrra sTREPITANS, var. SIMILLIMA. 
This northern variety of Pitta strepitans I found common enough 
at the Herbert river and scrubs around Cardwell. Some of the 
Specimens are deeper-coloured and smaller even than any I have 
seen from Cape York ; others, again, are not to be distinguished 
from the New-South-Wales birds; the white spot on the wing is 
almost obsolete in mauy from the ranges near Cardwell. Their 
notes are exactly the same in all localities. The nest and eggs are 
the same, and are found to vary in the same way as those described 
and figured by me in ‘The Ibis,’ 1867, p. 417. In size they are 
slightly smaller. I believe the finely spotted variety of the eggs of 
this species, taken at Cape York by Cockerell and Thorpe, was at 
the time mistaken for the eggs of Pitta mackloti—which is very 
probable. One thing is certain, I never knew a nest of either Pitta 
strepitans or P. simillima to contain more than three eggs alike; and 
most often two out of the four (the number invariably laid for a 
sitting) have been of the finely spotted and light-coloured variety, 
the other two strongly and deeply marked, as figured in ‘The Ibis,’ 
1867, p. 417. 
110. OrEocINCLA LUNULATA. 
I only once met with this species, in the scrubs on rocky sides of 
the coast-range; the eggs elongate, greenish, spotted with reddish 
brown, four in number. 
1i1. HLuRa@pus Macurosus, Ramsay, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 601. 
This interesting species appears to take the place of the 2. 
smithii of New South Wales. We found it feeding on the fruit of 
the native figs, in small families of four to eight in number. The 
note is more of a whéstle than a ery of any kind. 
112. SceNorpaus DENTIROSTRIS, gen. et sp. nov. 
The whole of the upper surface, wings, and tail rich olive-brown, 
the inner webs of the primaries and secondaries blackish brown, their 
margins near the base buffy white; under surface of the shoulders 
yellowish buff, with remains of broken bars of blackish brown on the 
smaller feathers ; the under wing-coverts yellowish buff, with cross 
bars of dull brown; under primary-coverts buff, crossed more dis- 
tinctly with dull brown ; under surface of primaries and secondaries 
dark ashy brown, the basal half of the inner margin buff tinged with 
a faint wash of light rufous, flanks olive-buff ; abdomen buff; under 
tail-coverts olive-buff, each feather barred with two or more lanceolate 
marks of dull olive-brown, under surface of the tail dull brown; 
throat, neck below, chest, and the rest of the under surface buff: 
white, each feather margined with olive-brown, which becomes lighter 
and less distinct on the lower parts, and almost obsolete on the flanks 
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