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kinds, among which may be distinguished those of the Lyre-bird, 

 Cat bird, and some of the Pycnoptilus itself. In form it is some- 

 what dome-shaped, placed oti its side and with a large, rough, ill- 

 defined opening, which was probably narrowed by the adjacent 

 debris among which it was placed. The eggs, two in number for 

 a sitting, are in tint of a dark rich purplish-brown, like those of 

 Sericornis citreogularis, with an indistinct zone at the larger end 

 of a blackish tint, and a few ill-defined obsolete spots of the same 

 on the other parts ; they are smaller and more dot-like nearer the 

 thiu end, where the ground colour is slightly lighter in tint ; they 

 measure as follows : — (A) 1 inch x 0'75 inch ; (B) 0"95 x 0'75 

 inch. They are decidedly swollen and much shorter in proportion 

 but otherwise very like the dark variety of the eggs of Sericornis 

 citreogularis. Mr. A. J. North, who took a nest of this species 

 so far back as October 1878, at Childers, in South Gippsland, 

 and exhibited the first specimens I had seen, at the International 

 Exhibition held in Melbourne 1880, informs me that this species 

 was very plentiful in that district up to 1881, but the numerous 

 clearings made by the " selectors " have since driven the birds to 

 other parts. The egg he states shows no difference from those 

 here described, except that some are slightly longer, and not so 

 swollen as others." (Uamsay, P L.S , N.S.W., 2nd Series,' Vol. 

 i., p. 1139.) 



A set taken at South Gippsland measures, length (A) 0-97 x 0'76 

 inch; (B) 0-98 x 0-75 inch. 



Hah. New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 

 {Unmsnij.') 



Genus SERICORNIS, Godd. 



3. SEEICOENIS CITEEOGULAEIS, Gould. 



ITello-w-throatea. Sericornis. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 213, p. 354. 2K. ^. 



This species was found breeding plentifully in the Eichmond 

 Eiver district in 1866 by Dr. Eamsay, and both nest and eggs 

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