164 PLOCEID^. 



Hah. Derby, N. W. A., Port Darwin and Port Essington, 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, Oape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 

 South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 



Genus STAGONOPLEURA, Cabanis. 



^^-(' STAGONOPLEUEA GUTTATA, Shaw. 



Spotted-sided Finch. 



Gould, Hwndhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 257, p. 417. 



This beautiful bird is plentifully dispersed over New South 

 Wales and Victoria, and is still to be found breeding close to 

 Sydney. The nest, like all other members of the genus is composed 

 of dried wiry grasses, &c., spherical in form with an* elongated 

 neck, used for ingress and egress, it is usually placed low down in 

 the thick foliage of a Synca/rpia, Eucalyptus, or Angopliora in 

 New South Wales. Eggs pure white, five or six in number for a 

 sitting, lengthened in form, being nearly equal in size at both ends ; 

 a set taken at Ashfield by Dr. Ramsay in October 1860, measure 

 as follows :— length (A) 0-75 x 53 inch ; (B) 0-71 x 0-52 inch ; 

 (C) 75 X 0-05 inch ; (D) 07 x 0-49 inch ; (E) 0-74 x 0-48 inch ; 

 (F) 0-78 X 0-48 inch. 



The dimensions of a set of four eggs taken at Broadmeadows, 

 Victoria, in November 1873, are as follows : — length (A) 0-77 x 

 0-52 inch ; (B) 0-73 x 0'5 inch ; (C) 074 x 0-51 inch ; (D) 0-76 x 

 0-49 inch. 



September and the three following months constitute the breeding 

 season of this species. 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 

 Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 

 Australia. {Ba/msoA/.) 



