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comprises the months of August and September. The eggs are 

 four in number, of a dull greenish-white, blotched all over, but 

 particularly at the larger end with large and small irregularly 

 shaped patches of olive, some being darker than the others, the 

 lighter coloured ones appearing as if beneath the surface of the 

 shell ; they are three-quarters of an inch in length by five-eighths 

 of an inch in breadth." (Gould, Eandhk. Bds. Ausi., Vol. i., 

 p. 403.) 



Mab. Derby, KW. Australia, West and South-west Australia. 

 (Bamsay.) 



Sub-Family TURBINE. 

 Genus GEOCICHLA, Kuhl. 



Z GEOCICHLA LUNULATA, Latham. 



Mountain Thrush. 

 Oould, Handbk. Bds. Aust. ,Yol. i., sp. 275, p. 439. 



The home of this species is in the thickly wooded mountain 

 ranges of the coast. It is very plentiful in the Strzelecki Ranges in 

 South Gippsland, frequenting alike the ground and fallen logs, and 

 is a bird easily procured, in fact in shooting the difficulty is to get 

 far away enough from it so as not to damage the specimen, a task 

 which the intervening undergrowth seldom permits, without 

 losing sight of the bird altogether. 



The nest is a round open structure, outwardly composed of fine 

 strips of bark and mosses, lined with roots ; the rim of the nest is 

 very thick and rounded. The position of the nest varies with the 

 locality in which it is found, in Gippsland it is usually placed 

 between the thick fork of a Eucalyptus about seven or eight feet 

 from the ground ; at Cheltenham I have found it placed at the top 

 of a Melaleuca. It commencs to breed about the middle of 

 July, and continues the three following months. Eggs two 

 in number for a sitting, elongated in form, in some instances 



