EOPSALTEU. Ill 



0-84 X 0-62 inch." {Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S. W., Vol. i., 2nd Series, 

 p. 1145. 



Rah. West and South- West Australia. (Ramsay.) 



"^ ^ EOPSALTRIA NANA, Ramsay. 



P.L.S. ofN.S.W., Vol. ii., p. 372. 



" I first noticed this species on the Lower Herbert, and after- 

 wards obtainepl it in the dense scrubs at Dalrymple's Gap, about 

 fourteen miles from Cardwell ; but it was not until Mr. Broadbent 

 had forwarded to me adult specimens, shot from the nest, that I 

 became aware of its being a distinct species ; and although very 

 closely allied to Eopsaltria capito (Gould) of our New South 

 Wales brushes it may at once be distinguished by the rufous tint 

 on the lores and round the eye. 



In habits JE. nana resembles all others of the genus, building a 

 similar nest and laying eggs closely resembling those of U. capito 

 but smaller. The nest is placed in the fork of a vine or horizontal 

 bough of a tree, and is a remarkably neat structure ; one before 

 me is perfectly round, open above, about, 1 '8 inch inside diameter, 

 2 '8 inches outside; depth inside 1*4 inch; to bottom of nest 

 outside 1 '6 inch to 2'5 inches ; it is built in the angle formed by 

 a leaf of a species of Calamus and the upright cane, and supported 

 by the branching leaflets, narrow strips of withered palm leaves 

 &c., and ornamented on the outside with green mosses and scales 

 of the bark of moss-grown scrub trees. 



The eggs are two or three in number, of a dull greenish-yellow, 

 greenish-buff, or greenish grey-brown, blotched and spotted with 

 yellowish-umber, buff, and reddish-brown, with freckles of a slaty- 

 grey tint ; the larger spots and blotches forming a zone at the 

 thicker end. Length 0-85 inch; breadth '5 6 inch. {Ramsay, 

 P.L.S., KS. W., Vol. ii., p. 474.) 



Sah. Rockingham Bay. {Ramsey.) 



