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and 1 believe correctly, was discovered about three years ago in the bush above the Kai-warawara 

 stream, in the vicinity of Wellington, and is still preserved in the Colonial Museum. It is a 

 shallow structure, with thin walls, and measures 4-75 inches across the top, with a cavity of 2'35 

 by 135. It is built of sprays, above which are laid fibres and dry rootlets of tree-fern ; and the 

 cavity is formed of fine grass, lined with cow-hair. This nest contained a single egg, of a narrow 

 ovoid form, measuring - 75 inch in length by "6 in breadth, of a yellowish-white colour, thickly 

 spotted and clouded with pale rufous. 



