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The following portion of their gregarious habit is specially in- 
teresting :— Roosting for the Night.—Usually in fine weather the 
sheltered side of a rough shell of an old tree is selected. When 
cold nights prevail, a stump, so Mee that the upper part forms 
an inverted funnel, is then chosen. The interest is to watch the 
shuffling upward movements my the birds as they move towards 
and enter the hole. While those on the stump are getting safely 
large enough to hold all; they then cluster in a great bunch 
(like a beeswatuj when ab rest) beneath the dome. Hence the 
ditions. Should a person pass too near, there is a nerve-startling 
rush, such as a tree falling close to ae would produce, and the 
process of camping has to be repeate 
PARDALOTUS ORNATUS, Temm. 
Pardalotus striatus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. II., pl. 38. 
Pardalotus ornatus, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bas.) vol. X., p. 
55; Hall, * Key to the Birds of Austr.," p. 46. 
a, b. Skins, adult male and female, 397 98. 
COLLYRIOCINCLA RUFIVENTRIS, Gould. 
Collyriocincla i peu Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IT., pl. 
75; Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat je vol. IIL, p. 292; Hall, “ Key 
3 : 
a. Skin, adult female, Tra '98. 
b. Skin, immature female, 4/9/98. 
a). General eee brownishgrey, lores and iiber parts cor- 
responding with the brown over most of the grey. Bi 
black ; length, 0:9 in 
(5). General colour of plumage grey, lores and other parts 
agreeing, except region of vent and under tail coverts, which 
correspond with those of a. Bill light-horn, poo along the 
culmen ; length, 0-75 inch. 
he immature female has the eyebrow like its surroundings in 
colour. 
TAENIOPYGIA CASTANOTIS, Gould. 
Amadina castanotis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. III., pl. 87. 
eniopygia en Sharpe, Brit. Cat. Bds., vol 
XIIL, p. 311; Hall, * Key Bds. Austr.," p. 50. 
Skin, male, 20/11/'98. Forehead and crown uniform grey; 
under portion of tail deep brown. 
That this species is a “ host” of the cuckoo, Chaleococeyx basalis, 
is now placed on record. Mr. Cameron writes—'*A colony of the 
chestnut-eared Finch had its nests sprinkled about, some 
