CIMCLOBAMFHUS. 



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'* The nest of this species is placed upon the ground beside some 

 tuft of long grass or among the dead leafy tops of trees which 

 have been feUed. It is composed often of stringy-bark alone, at 

 other times with grass, fibrous rootlets and the like. The eggs of 

 this species have a white ground, spotted, blotched, or minutely 

 freckled with bright reddish-brown or salmon colour : their number 

 is usually three." (Bam8ay,Ibi8, 1866, Vol. ii., New Series, p; 328.) 



Eggs of this species taken in Victoria have the ground colour 

 entirely obscured by very fine salmon coloured freckles and spots, 

 in some instances forming a zone at the larger end. Length (A) 

 0-93 X 0-71 inch ; (B) 0-97 x 07 inch ; (C) 0-9 x 0-7 inch. 



A set taken by Mr. James Ramsay at Tyndarie, are evenly 

 freckled all over, length (A) 0-95 x 0-64 inch ; (B) 0-95 x 0-62 

 inch ; (0) 0-95 x 0-65 inch. 



Hah. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 

 Interior, Victoria and South Australia (Bamsay.) 



CINCLORAMPHUS RUPESCENS, Vigors and Horsfield. 

 Eufous-tinted Cincloramplius. 

 Gould, Randbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 243, p. 397. 



The nest of this species is placed in a hollow scraped in the earth 

 at the side of a tuft of grass, or amongst the withered leaves of a 

 fallen tree, and on several occasions I have taken it from underneath 

 the overhanging bank of a dry creek. The nest is cup-shaped, 

 and is composed of dried grasses, lined with hair. Eggs four in 

 number for a sitting, in form pointed ovals, varying a great deal 

 in their tints, and in the disposition of their markings. 



A set taken at Nanama, near Yass, New South Wales, by Mr. 

 James Ramsay, in November 1866, have the entire surface finely 

 but thickly freckled with chestnut and purpUsh-brown markings. 

 Length (A) 0-85 x 0-6 inch ; (B) 0-84 x 0-6 inch ; (C) 0-84 x Q-61 

 inch ; (D) 0-87 x 0-63 inch. 



