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3 RHIPIDURA RUFIFRONS, Latham. 



Rufous-&onted Fantail. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 136, p. 240. 



" This species although a constant visitor to Sydney and the 

 neighbourhood, seldom breeds except in the thick brushes of 

 lUawarra, or such like localities. The eggs are two for a sitting, 

 of a pale cream colour, or creamy-white, with a zone of spots and 

 dots of light wood-brown, and a few dots of lilac, the markings 

 being confined to the zone, with the exception of one or two large 

 dots on the remainder of the surface. Length 0-7 x 0-52 inch." 

 (From Mr. Ralph Ilargrave's Coll. Rarmwy, P.L.S., N.S. W., 

 2ndSer., Vol. i., p. 1143.) 



Hah. Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond and 

 Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South 

 Australia. (Ramsay.) 



2. RHIPIDURA SETOSA, Quoy et Gaimard. 



(R. isura, Gould.) 



Northern Fantail. 



Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aus., Vol. i., sp. 138, p. 242. 



A nest of this species in the Australian Museum Collection, 

 taken at Port Darwin in 1879, is similar in shape to that of R. 

 albiscapa, but slightly larger, the nest is composed entirely of 

 very fine thin strips of bark woven together with the webs of 

 spiders, but not so compactly made as that of the former species, 

 it is also without any special lining, the nest is placed at the 

 junction of a fine three-pronged branch, and the stem-like 

 appendage at the bottom of the nest is built round a twig growing 

 below the fork on which the nest is placed. 



" Egg similar to that of S. tnotacilloides, but much smaller. It 

 is of a light cream colour, with duU wood-brown spots forming a 



