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pear-shaped form and is constructed of mosses, grasses, spiders' 

 cocoons &c., all securely woven together, with an entrance near the 

 top, and lined inside with feathers and a few dried flowers, it is 

 attached to the fine drooping leafy twigs of a Eucalyptus, and is 

 four and a-half inches in length, by two inches and a-quarter in 

 breadth at the thickest part ; aperture one inch long, by six-eighths 

 of an inch in width. 



Eggs three in number for a sitting, a set taken at the mouth of 

 the river Yarra in September 1879, are of a creamy-brown ground 

 colour, minutely freckled at the larger end with buflfy-brown ; 

 length (A) 0-57 x 0-44 inch ; (B) 0-57 x 0-46 ; (0) 0-58 x 0-45 

 inch. A set taken at Macquarie Fields, in October 1860, are of 

 a dull bufiy-white, minutely freckled all over with slaty-brown 

 markings, but particularly towards the larger end where they 

 become confluent, and form a well defined zone ; length (A) 0'62 

 X 0-43 inch ; (B) 0-63 x 0-43 inch ; (C) 0-63 x 044 inch. The 

 latter is the most usual variety found. 



This species commences to breed in September and continues 

 during the two following months. 



Hhb. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 

 Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and 

 South Australia. {Ramsay.) 



Genub ERYTHEODEYAS, Gould. 



3. ERYTHRODRYAS RHODINOGASTER, Drapiez. 

 (E. rhodinogaster, Gould.) 

 Pink-breasted Wood Robin. 

 GoM, Handlk. Bis. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 163, p. 276. 



" The nest of this species is formed of narrow strips of soft bark, 

 soft fibres of decaying wood, and fine roots matted and woven 

 together with vegetable fibres, and old black nests of spiders. The 

 eggs are three in number, of a greenish-white, thickly sprinkled 



