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a hollow stump, split open on one side, and the nest was 

 scarcely two feet above the ground. It contained three young birds. 



The second was built in a hollow, dead branch, nearly fifty 

 feet from the ground. This also contained young. 



The third I found this summer, and, as in the preceding 

 instance, it was placed in an upright, dead branch, access to the 

 interior of which was afforded by a vertical rift. The nest was 

 fully ninety feet from the ground, and, of course, I could not get 

 at it, but I frequently saw the old birds carrying up food for 

 their brood, and entering the narrow opening. 



I do not know any other bird that builds at elevations varying 

 from two feet to nearly one hundred. 



The Red-rumped Acanthiza is confined to the scrub, but the 

 Chestnut rumped species is frequently met with at considerable 

 distances from it in the surrounding forest. 



Description of egg of Acanthiza uropygialis : — Egg about 

 7>^ X 5^ lines; white, with light chocolate blotches, the latter 

 forming a zone about }i inch broad round the larger end. 



Neilborough, 8th March, i888. R. H. Nancarrow. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



SPIRANTHES AUSTRALIS. 



To the Editor of the Victorian Naturalist. 



Dear Sir, — Will you kindly announce in your next issue 

 that Spiranthes Australis (nearly out of flower) was found at 

 Cheltenham on Saturday last by C. French, jun., this being the 

 nearest recorded locality to Melbourne where it has been found. 

 About three years since. Dr. Lucas found it near Healesville, 

 and now it has lately been found by Mr. Topp near Lilydale. 

 I also found it at Frankston. — I am, yours truly, 



C. French. 



Botanical Museum, 21st February, 1888. 



To the Editor of the Victorian Naturalist. 



Dear Sir, — The orchid I found at Oakleigh, and exhibited at 

 the February meeting of the Club, is Chiloglottis diphylla (R.B.), 

 according to the Baron. He said it has only been found twice 

 before— at the Ovens River and Wilson's Promontory, never 

 before near Melbourne. It is growing in thousands on tlae banks 

 of the creeks to the left of Oakleigh. The plants are going out 

 of flower very quick. I send you this, thinking it would be an 

 interesting note for the Naturalist.— Yoms respectfully, 



J. E. Dixon. 



Main-street, Oakleigh, 29th February, 1888. 



