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edges of the scrubs. Upon every occasion that we have discovered 

 its nest it has been placed within a few inches of the ground. 

 One I have at present before me is suspended to the underside of 

 a fern (Pteris aquilinaj, it is a closely interwoven dome-shaped 

 structure, in form closely resembling that of ^4. lineata, but differs • 

 from it in the outside being made as rough as possible with coarse 

 pieces of strong bark and leaves of grasses, which hang down and 

 stick out from it in various directions ; it is composed chiefly of 

 stringy-bark and the white paper-like bark of the Ti-tree, lined 

 with cotton-tree down and feathers ; length four inches by three 

 inches in breadth. The eggs three in number have a pure white 

 ground, zoned at the larger end with freckles of light brown (in 

 tint duller than those of A. lineata), which in some specimens are 

 also distributed over the rest of the surface. Its note is much 

 louder and more varied than that of any other species. Besides 

 being the foster parent of Chalcites hasalis, and C. plagosus, this 

 species has frequently the pleasure of rearing the young of Cuculus 

 flabelliformis, three nests out of four lately found of this Acanthiza 

 having contained an egg of the C. flabelliformis.^' (Ramsay, P.Z. 

 S., 1866, p. 574.) 



The set of eggs described above measure as follows : — length 

 (A) 0-65 X 0-49 inch; (B) 0-66 x 049 inch; (C) 0-64 x 046 inch. 



I found these birds building in the low ferns (Pteris aquilina) 

 at Narrabeen, New South Wales, on the 20th of June, 1888. 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 

 (Bamsay.) 



5-*- ACANTHIZA DIEMENENSIS, Gould. 



Tasmanian Acanthiza. 

 Oould, Handhh. Bds. Aust , Vol. i., sp., 221, p. 365. 



This species is strictly confined to Tasmania, through the 

 greater part of which it is freely dispersed. The nest is a dome- 

 shaped structure, similar to those of the Australian species, and 

 is composed of roots, grasses, spiders' cocoons &c., and lined with 



