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purplish-brown and lilac markings, intermingled with others of a 

 deep bluish-grey, the latter colour predominating and appearing 

 as if beneath the surface of the shell ; towards the larger end 

 these markings become thicker and form an irregular shaped zone. 

 Length (A) 0-73 x 0-61 inch ; (B) 07 x 0-6 inch ; (0) 072 x 0-61 

 inch ; (D^ 0-72 x 0-6 inch. Taken at Childers, South Gippsland, 

 November 23rd, 1884. 



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

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

 Tasmania. (^Ramsay.) 



'/■ PETRCBCA GOODENOVII, Vigors and Horsfield. 



Hed-capped Robin. 

 Gould, Hamdh. Bds. Aust., Yo\. i., sp. 166, p. 280. 



The nest of the Red-capped Robin is one of the most beautiful 

 belonging to our Australian birds, it is usually placed on a thick 

 branch or upright fork of a Oasuarina, near the ground ; and is 

 very difficult of detection as it is made to assimilate so closely to 

 its surroundings, and like the nests of the Sittellce it is only by 

 the actions of the birds that its whereabouts is betrayed ; it is 

 composed of fine strips of bark, neatly held together with fragments 

 of wool, the inside being lined with cow hair, opossum fur, smd a few 

 feathers ; the edge of the nest is thick and rounded, and the whole 

 outer surface is beautifully ornamented with a mouse eared lichen 

 which when new gives it a very pretty appearance ; external 

 diameter two inches and three-quarters, depth one inch and three- 

 quarters, rim five-eighths of an inch in thickness ; internal 

 diameter one inch and a-half, depth one inch. The eggs are four 

 in number, ground colour when fresh greyish-green, thickly 

 covered all over the surface with light purpHsh-brown markings, 

 but particularly towards the centre where they become larger and 



