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with a few wiry grass steins, the whole exterior being covered 

 with mosses, and ornamented in a few places with large pieces of 

 lichens. Exterior diameter two and three-quarters of an inch by 

 two inches and a-half in depth. Eggs two in number for a sitting, 

 oval in form slightly tapering at one end, of a very faint dull 

 greenish-white, covered with indistinct markings of yellowish and 

 reddish-brown, which at the larger end becomes more boldly 

 defined, where, intermingled with superimposed blotches of wood- 

 brown, they form an irregularly shaped zone. Length 0'82 x 0'6 

 inch. The eggs of this bird are entirely devoid of the rich apple- 

 green colour of those of the southern representative E. australis. 

 From Mr. B. D. Fitzgerald's Collection. (North, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.8.W., Vol. ii.. Second Series, p. 146, 1888.) 



Hah. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts. {Bamsay.) 



^ -3 EOPSALTRIA GULARIS, Quoy et Gaimard. 



G-rey-breasted Robin. 

 OouU, Handbh. Bds. Amt., Vol. i., sp. 176, p. 294. 



A nest of this species taken by Mr. George Masters at King 

 George's Sound, on the 24th of September 1868, and now in the 

 Australian Museum Collection, is a deep cup-shaped structure, 

 composed entirely of strips of bark held together with a very fine 

 white fibre resembling cobwebs ; at the bottom of the nest are a 

 few dried Eucalyptus leaves ; on the outside of the nest are long 

 strips of bark attached all round, some pieces measuring over three 

 and ar-half inches in length and three-eighths of an inch in width ; 

 outside measurement of nest three inches, depth two inches, 

 internal diameter two inches and a-half, depth one inch and a-half. 



"Eggs two or three for a sitting; the ground colour is of a pale 

 apple-green, with a zone of dots and spots round the larger end of 

 a light reddish-brown, they approach in tint faded eggs of E. nana, 

 Ramsay, but are much larger." Length (A) 0-83 x 0-6 inch ; (B) 



