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in the open forest-lands of the former colony ; both contiguous 

 to the Dividing Range, and the Sea coast. It constructs a 

 large cup-shaped nest, outwardly composed of sticks, and lined 

 with twigs, grasses, and cow-hair, and placed in the fork of any 

 suitable tree, sometimes in a Eucalyptus at a great height from 

 the ground, at otlier times in a sapling about twenty feet high, and 

 on several occasions I have taken its nest in the Melaleuca within 

 ten feet of the ground. Eggs three in number for a sitting, 

 elongated in form, and varying as much in the colour and 

 disposition of their markings as the preceding species. I give the 

 description of the varieties most frequently found. 



Var. A. Ground colour pale blue, marked and streaked all over 

 with irregular shaped lines of reddish-brown, in some specimens 

 , the latter colour is smudged and clouded on some parts of the 

 shell. Taken at Yendon, "Victoria, September, 1878. 



Var. B. Ground colour bluish-white, streaked all over with very 

 narrow faint lines of wood-brown. Taken near Adelaide, South. 

 Australia 1863. 



Var. 0. Ground colour bright apple-green with minute freckles 

 of light red evenly distributed over the whole surface. Taken at 

 Woodstock, Victoria, August 1870. 



Dimensions of Var. A which is an average sized set — length 

 (a) 1-65 X M2 inch; (b) 1-67 x M inch; (c) 1-67 x M3inch. 



The months of August, September, and October constitute the 

 breeding season of this species. 



Hah. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 

 West and South- West Australia. [Ramsay.) 



^ GYMNOEHINA ORGANICUM, GouU. 



(O. hyperleuciM, Gould.) 

 Tasmania u Crow-shrike. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds. Ami., Vol. i., sp. 94, p. 178. ^KS". P. 



This species represents in Tasmania the G. leuconota of the 

 mainland, its nidification is similar to that of the preceding 



