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round, with smoothened edges. The interior cavity is deeply lined with 
soft, white, pigeon feathers. 
It will be seen, therefore, that the nest of this species shows its affinity 
to Gerygone, rather than to Orthonyw. An illustration of it was given in 
Mr. Pott’s paper on ‘‘ New Zealand Birds,” Part II. (“ Trans. N.Z., Inst.,” 
Vol. V., p. 184) ; but no full description has hitherto been published. 
TURNAGRA CRASSIROSTRIS. e% . 
There is a nest of this bird in the Canterbury Museum, from the River 
Waio, County of Westland. (Potts). It is a round nest, somewhat loosely 
constructed, composed of small, dry, twigs, shreds of bark, fragments of 
moss, etc., with a rather large cup-shaped cavity, lined with dry grasses 
and other fibres. To all appearance it is carelessly, but nevertheless firmly, 
fixed in the forked twigs of a small upright branch. Mr. Potts, who 
studied this bird pretty closely in Westland, states that the nest usually 
contains two eggs; but he is of opinion that the bird breeds twice in the 
season. The Museum collection contains four specimens of this egg, which 
exhibit considerable difference in form. ‘Two of them—probably from one 
nest—are very ovoido-conical; one of these measures 1:3 inch by 1°05 
inch, and is pure white, marked at irregular distances over the entire 
surface, with specks and roundish spots of blackish-brown. The other is 
slightly narrower in form, the white is not so pure, and the markings are 
less diffuse, being collected into reddish-brown blotches towards the larger 
end. The other two eggs (apparently also from one nest) are of a long 
ovoido-elliptical form, and of equal size; the one I tested measuring 1.6 
inch in length by -95 of an inch in its widest part. The shell is pure white, 
with widely-scattered irregular spots of blackish-brown, less numerous and 
of smaller size in one than in the other. Both eggs have a rather glossy 
surface. 
OREADION CARUNCULATUS. 
Captain Hutton was the first to discover the nest and eggs of this 
species, on the Little Barrier Island (‘ Birds of New Zealand,” p. 151). 
An egg received by the Canterbury Museum, from the West Coast, in 
June last, is of a rather elliptical form, measuring 1-2-inch in length by 
-85 of an inch in its greatest width. It is of a delicate purplish-grey, 
becoming lighter at the smaller end, and marked all over the surface, but 
more thickly at the larger end, with points, spots, and blotches of dark 
purple and brown. 
GLAUCOPIS CINEREA. 
One of the many interesting discoveries, since the publication of my 
work, is the finding of the nest and eggs of the Orange-Wattled Crow. The 
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