GEAUCALUS. 75 



Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 

 Australia, West and South- West Australia, South Coast New 

 Guinea. (Ramsay.) 



o. GEAUCALUS MENTALIS, Vigors and Eorsfield, 



Varied Grauoalus. 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 105, p. 195. J^. 3. 



The nest and eggs of this species is somewhat similar to that of 

 G. melanops. A set of three eggs taken by Dr. Ramsay at Dobroyde 

 on the 31st of October 1864, are of a dull asparagus green, 

 uniformly spotted and blotched with pale red markings, and a few 

 obsolete spots of bluish-grey, appearing as if beneath the surface 

 of the shell. Length (A) 1 -27 x 0-87 inch ; (B) 1 -25 x 0-86 inch ; 

 (0) 1-26 X 0-86 inch. 



Another set, elongate in form, are of a dull olive-brown, thickly 

 freckled and spotted all over with dark reddish-brown markings. 

 Length (A) 1-3 x 0-83 inch ; (B) 1-3 x 0-85 inch ; (C) 1-27 x 0-86 

 inch. 



This species breeds during September and the three following 

 months. 



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

 Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 

 South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 



GRAUCALUS PARVIROSTRIS, Gould. 



Short-billed Grauoalus. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 104, p. 194. 



This is the Tasmanian form of the G. melanops of the Australian 

 Continent, and its nidification and the number and colour of its 

 eggs is precisely similar, A set of two, taken near Hobart in 

 November 1885, are of a dull olive-green, thickly freckled, spotted, 



