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of King George's Sound in the former colony, where Mr. Masters 

 succeeded in obtaining a number of specimens during 1868, 

 likewise the nest and eggs. A nest of this species now before me 

 taken from the Australian Museum Collection, is a dome-shaped 

 structure composed of the dried wiry stems of a Drosera, and the 

 flowering portions of the Banksia cones, spiders' webs, &c., all 

 matted up together, and lined inside with the white downy seeds of 

 some composite plant. It measures exteriorly four inches and a 

 quarter in height, by three inches in width, the aperture which is 

 oval and near the top being one inch high by one inch and a-quarter 

 in width. The nest is firmly packed in the upright branches of 

 a Banksia, and was placed about five feet from the ground ; it 

 contained two eggs of a fleshy-white ground colour, freckled all 

 over with irregular shaped markings of reddish-brown, particularly 

 towards the larger end, where they form a well defined zone. 

 Length (A) 0'7 x 0-52 inch ; (B) 0-69 x 0-52 inch. (JVorth, P.L.S., 

 N.S.W., Vol. ii., 2nd Series p. 406.) 



Hah. Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West 

 Australia. {Ramsay.) 



-3 ACANTHIZA NANA, Vigors and Horsfield. 



Little Acanthiza. 

 GouU, Handhk., Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 226, p. 371. ^2331 J&. 



" The nest of this species is not by any means as neat a 

 structure as that of A. lineata, it is moreover placed in situations 

 quite difierent. It is of an oblong form and placed among the 

 topmost twigs of some bushy scrub, composed of thin shreds of 

 stringy-bark and grasses, and often beautifully decorated with 

 green mosses and lichens, and lined with native cotton-tree down, 

 feathers, or fine grasses. The entrance, which is about one inch 

 and a-half from the top, having its edges but roughly finished ofi" 

 and not covered by any hood, is one inch in width. The Yellow 

 Acanthiza shows a decided preference for the tops of the native 

 Ti-trees, but its nest may also be found in various other trees and 



