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ascend the branches, looking like a number of brown balls bouncing 

 among the limbs. This species has a wide range of habitat, being 

 found equally common on the Darling, Lachlan, Murray, and Bell 

 Rivers, as well as over the whole southern portion of the country 

 and in "Western Australia. Upon the Bell River and near the 

 Lachlan, I found them very plentiful in company with the P. 

 temporalis, and have frequently found several nests of both species 

 built in the same clump of trees, for which purpose they show 

 a preference to the thick bushy tops of a species of Acacia allied 

 to the ' Myall '." {Ramsay, Proa. Phil. Soc, Sydney, 1865, p. 318, 

 pi. i., fig. 2.) 



A set in the Australian Museum Collection measure (A) 0-93 x 

 0-63 inch ; (B) 09 x 0-64 inch ; (C) 0-89 x 065 inch ; (D) 0-91 

 X 0-63 inch ; (E) 0-93 x 0-62 inch. 



Ilab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, New South 

 Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South- 

 West Australia. (JBamsay.) 



POMATOSTOMUS RUFICEPS, Hartlauh. 

 Cliestnut-crowiiecl Pomatostomus. 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Ausi , Vol. i., sp. 295, p. 484. 



" Nest similar to that of P. temporalis. Eggs a little smaller, five 

 in number. In several the ground colour has a very faint tinge of 

 green, the blackish hair lines are finer and closer together in some 

 nearly obscuring the ground colour, others have a pinkish-chocolate 

 tinge. Length 0-95 x 0-72. Dohr. Mug." {Ramsay, P.L.S., 

 JV.S. W., Vol. vii., p. 46.) 



Hah. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. 

 {Ramnsay.) 



