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mouse-ear lichen, and hanging from the sides are long chips of 

 bark, some of them four inches or more in length and half an inch 

 wide, fastened one above the other with cobweb, the lowest of 

 them reaching several inches below the bottom of the nest. The 

 eggs, which are two or three in number, are of an apple-green, or 

 light greenish-blue colour, spotted, blotched, or minutely dotted 

 with deep brownish-red, yellowish-brown, and obsolete spots of faint 

 lilac. Some are thickly speckled all over so as almost to hide the 

 ground colour, and in these the yellowish-brown markings 

 predominate ; others are distinctly spotted, or have a zone of 

 markings. They are in length ten and a-half to eleven lines by 

 seven to seven and a-half in breadth, and are usually found in 

 September and the three following months.'' {Ramsay, Froc. Phil. 

 Soc, Sydney, 1865, p. 326, pi. i., figs. 7 and 8.) 



A set of the eggs of this species taken at Dobroyde in 1866 

 measure as follows :— length (A) 0'82 x 0-63 inch ; (B) 0-8 x 0-59 

 inch; (C) 0-81 xO-61 inch. 



A set taken in South Gippsland give the following dimensions: 

 length (A) 0-84 x 0-65 inch ; (B) 0-81 x 0-62 inch ; (C) 0-82 x 

 0-63 inch. 



Hob. Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, 

 New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. (Bamsay.) 



2 EOPSALTRIA CAPITO, Gould. 



Large-headed Robin. 

 Gould, Handbk: Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 178, p. 297. 



The localities which this bird frequents are the rich brushes 

 that clothe the sides of the rivers on the eastern coast of Australia, 

 extending from Rockingham Bay in the north to the Clarence 

 River in the south. A nest of this species now before me taken 

 from the low fork of a tree near Ballina, on the Richmond River, 

 is a deep cup-shaped structure composed of portions of the dead 

 leaves of the " lawyer-vine " (Calamus ausPralis), held together 



