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of A. melanura, is roughly lined with sheep’s wool, with a few small feathers 
intermixed. It contained two eggs, which differ somewhat from each other, 
both in form and colour. One of them is of a warm salmon-pink, thickly 
blotched at the larger end, and spotted at irregular intervals on the general 
surface with reddish-brown, ovoido-elliptical in form, and measuring 1.05 
inch by .75 inch. The other egg is more oval in form, paler in colour, and 
less marked with reddish-brown, the spots being much smaller and more 
scattered over the surface. 
ORTHONYX OCHROCEPHALA. 
Mr. Potts has pointed out (‘‘ Trans. N. Z. Inst.,”’ Vol. V., p. 177) that 
the description of the egg of O. ochrocephala, given in my “ Birds of New 
Zealand,” is defective, and I take this opportunity of rectifying it. The 
egg of this species is of a uniform dark cream colour, minutely and faintly 
freckled over the entire surface with a darker tint, approaching to pale brown. 
It is ovoido-elliptical in form, measuring 1 inch by .7 inch, although some 
specimens which I have examined are slightly smaller. 
The nest is similar in construction to that of O. albicilla in the North 
Island. It is around and compactly built structure, composed chiefly of 
mosses, having the cup lined with fine grasses. In the specimen under 
examination, there are a few feathers of the Tui and Paroquet intermixed 
with the other materials. 
The eggs differ in colour from those of 0, albicilla, but the type is the 
same. 
XENICUS LONGIPES. 
The nest of this bird is a compact building formed entirely of green 
moss, oval in form, measuring about eight inches in length by about five 
inches in breadth, with a small entrance on the side not far from the top, 
and so small as scarcely to admit the tip of the finger. (Cant. Mus.) 
GERYGONE ALBOFRONTATA, 
The nest of this bird is similar to that of Gerygone flaviventris ; but with 
a larger aperture, and without any threshold projection, although the 
upper edge is overhanging. The green-coloured nests of the meadow 
spider (Eperia) are used among the building materials, and likewise the 
white cocoons of some ground species, which I have not been able to 
identify. 
CERTHIPARUS NOVA-ZEALANDIE. 
A nest of this species in the Canterbury Museum is of a rounded form, 
with a slightly tapering apex, and not unlike a large pear in shape. The 
structure is composed of dry vegetable fibres, fragments of wool, moss, 
spiders’ nests, and other soft materials closely felted together. The entrance 
is placed on the side, about one-third distant from the top, and is perfectly 
