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Genus HYLACOLA, Gould. 



I HYLACOLA 'PYB,nROVYGlA,rigors and Horsfield. 

 Eed-rumped Hylacola. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 205, p. 346. 



" The nest of this species is usually hidden at the base of a 

 clump of bushes and grass, or in some bushy scrub near the ground ; 

 sometimes resting on the ground, and at all times very difficult 

 to find. I first found them breeding at Dobroyde in 1860, 

 where I procured both adults and young. The nest is a loose 

 structure, composed of narrow strips of bark, grasses, and rootlets, 

 (which can be scarcely said to be interwoven), and with which it 

 is chiefly lined with the addition of a few feathers. It is dome 

 shaped in form, and a little larger than that of Malurus lamhertii. 

 The full number of eggs were in every instance three, the ground 

 colour of a pinkish-salmon tint, fading after being emptied to a 

 duU white, tinged with chocolate pink, in tint not unlike those of 

 a Sericornis mcugnvrostris or S. frontalis. They are blot ched with 

 irregular markings of light chocolate brown at the larger end, and 

 a few dashes and spots of the same tint on the thinner end. The 

 blotches forming a zone near the thick end. Length 0-76 x 0-57 

 inch. (Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. ii., p. 108.) 



Hub. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 

 Australia. (Ramsai/.) 



Genus CISTICOLA, Kaup. 



1-('t) CISTICOLA RUFICEPS, Gould. 



Eufous-headecl Grass Warbler. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 212, p. 353. 



" This species is plentifully dispersed over the grass beds ; it is 

 common near Sydney, and equally plentiful at Cape York. The 

 nest is a very neat, dome-shaped structure, chiefly composed of 



