62 LANIABJS. 



grey appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 

 1-2 X 0-85 inch; (B) 1-2 x 0-85 inch; (C) 1-17 x 0-87 inch. 

 Taken by Mr. James Ramsay, at Tyndarie, August 20th, 1879. 



Var. B. Ground colour apple-green, with a few minnte dots of 

 reddish-black evenly distributed over the whole surface ; these 

 eggs are similar in colour and markings to the eggs of one of the 

 varieties of Qymnorhina leueonota. Length (A) 1-21 x 0-87 inch ; 

 (B) M6 X 0-9 inch; (C) l-2o x 0-89 inch. Taken at Childers, 

 South Gippsland, September 1878. 



Var. C. Ground colour light yellowish-brown, with a clouded 

 coalesced patch on the larger apex of reddish-brown markings. 

 Taken at Yendon, Victoria, September 1883. 



The breeding season commences in August and continues the 

 three following months. 



Hah. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 

 South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, f Ramsay.) 



3 CRAGTICUS ROBUSTUS, Latham. 



(G. nigrogularis, Gould.) 



Black-throated Crow-shrike. 



Oould, RandhJc. Bds. Ausl., Vol. i., sp. 95, p. 180. .ZT". 8. 



The nest of this species is a rather large saucer-shaped structure ; 

 one now before me, from the Collection in the Australian 

 Museum, is composed on the outside of long twigs of the " Cotton 

 Bush," some of the pieces measuring eight inches in length, and 

 the interior is neatly lined with grasses, and finer twigs ; the 

 exterior measurement of the nest is six and a-half inches in 

 diameter, by three inches in depth ; interior diameter four inches 

 and a-half by one inch and three-quarters in depth ; the nest 

 was placed on the horizontal branch of a tree about ten feet 



