1 MALACOCEKCTJS STEIATUS. 



Nidification. — Tlic breeding-season of the " Seven Brothers " lasts from March until July. The nest is 

 placet! in a cinnamon-bush, shrub, or bramble at about 4 feet from the ground, and is a compact cup-shaped 

 structure, usually fixed in a fork, and made of stout grasses and plant-stalks, and lined with fine grass, which, 

 in some instances 1 have observed, was plucked green. The interior measures 2A inches in depth by about 

 .'3 in width. The eggs arc two or three in number, small for the size of the bird, glossy in texture, and of a 

 uniform opaque greenish blue They measure from 0'91 to TO inch in length, by 0"7 to - 71 in breadth. 



