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marshes of the river only; we never found it in the swamps. The furthest south it was after- 

 wards met with was on the Alhert river, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, in lat. 18° S., which gives it 

 a range of six and a half degrees of latitude over the northern part of the continent. Its nest 

 never came under our notice ; consequently we are not aware either of the size or colour of the 

 eggs ; neither did we see any young birds during the period of our observation, ranging from 



July to November." 



Mr. White, of Adelaide, informed Mr. Gould that he once found the nest of this species in 

 a hollow log, and that, according to the natives, the usual number of eggs is from eight to ten *. 



* Handbook to the Birds of Australia, vol. ii. p. 376. 



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