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concealed among the ddbris and grass which usually accumulates 

 in such places. The eggs are three in number, the ground colour 

 almost white, the whole surface thickly freckled with dots of 

 blackish-brown and reddish-brown, with a few of a pale lilac tint 

 here and there, some of the dots very minute, others larger and 

 roundish in shape ; in one specimen they form a thick crowded 

 patch on the thicker end, where some are confluent ; the egg 

 before me is oval, rather swollen, and the shell very thin ; length 

 1-02 X 0-75 inch, they breed during September to December. 

 From Mr. Ralph Hargrave's Coll. (Bamsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., 

 Vol. vii., p. 50.) 



Rah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Victoria arid South Australia. 

 (Ramsay.) 



» SPHENURA LONGIROSTRIS, Gould. 



Long-billed Bristle Bird. 

 Gould, Hcmdbk. Bds. Aust , Vol. i., sp. 203, p. 343. ^^ '^^ 



A nest of this species in the Australian Museum Collection, 

 taken by Mr. George Masters at King George's Sound, Western 

 Australia, in September 1868, is oval in form with a large entrance 

 at the side, and is composed entirely of long dried hollow grass- 

 stalks, with a little grass of a finer description placed inside at 

 the bottom of the nest; it measures six inches in length, five inches 

 in width, and four inches in height, and was placed amongst some 

 dried vegetation close to the ground. Eggs two in number for a 

 sitting, of a dull white ground CDlour minutely dotted, spotted, 

 and freckled all over with wood-brown and purplish-brown 

 markings, but particularly towards the larger end, where 

 intermingled with clouded blotches of dark lilac, appearing as if 

 beneath the surface of the shell, they become confluent and form an 

 irregular zone ; length (A) 0-9 x 0-72 inch ; (B) 0-91 x 0-73 inch. 



JIab. West and South-west Australia. (^Ramsay.) 



