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Specimens in the Maoleayan Museum Collection, taken by Mr. 

 E. Spalding at Port Darwin, have the markings smaller and more 

 evenly dispersed over the suface of the shell. Length (A) 1 -2 x 

 0-8 inch; (B) M8 x 0-78 inch. 



Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, South Coast New Guinea, 



COLLYRIOCINCLA I^EOTIROSTRIS, Jardine mid Selhy. 



(C. selhii, Jardine.) 

 Selby's Thrush. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 126, p. 224. 



In Tasmania this bird takes the place of C. harmonica, of the 

 Australian Continent, and in its mode of nidification, and the 

 number and colour of its eggs, it is so precisely similar to that species 

 that a second description is hardly required. The eggs vary in 

 form from an oval to a lengthened oval, and are of a pearly-white, 

 spotted and blotched with chestnut-brown, blackish-brown, and 

 bluish-grey, the latter colour appearing as if beneath the surface 

 of the shell. Length (A) 1-2 x 0.86 inch ; (B) M8 x 0-84 inch ; 

 (0) 1-21 X 0-87 inch. 



Five eggs of this bird in the Collection of Dr. J. C. Cox, give the 

 following measurements, ; — length (A) 1'2 x 0-87 inch ; (B) 1'17 

 X 0-85 ; (C) 1-25 x 0-9 inch; (D) M4 x 087 inch; (E) 1.15 x 

 0-85 inch. 



Hab. Tasmania, 



^2-3 COLLYRIOCINCLA RUFIVENTRIS, Gould. 



Buflf-bellied Thrush. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 124, p. 222. 



" This species is a native of Western Australia where it is to 

 be found in all thickly wooded places feeding as much on the 

 ground as upon the trees and scrubs. It breeds in the latter 

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