172 PITTIDJE. 



of a pale stone ground colour, in others greenish, thickly freckled 

 with reddish-brown over the entire surface of the shell, occasionally 

 eggs are found with only a few minute markings upon the larger 

 end. Dimensions of a set taken at Cheltenham, July 1878 : — 

 length (A) 1-42 x 0-91 inch ; (B) 14 x 0-91 inch. 



A set taken at Dobroyde, July 1860, measures as follows : — 

 length (A) 1-4 x 089 inch; (B) 1-38 x 0-87 inch. 



Sah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 

 fMamsay.^ 



3 GEOCICHLA MACRORHYNCHA, Gould. 



Gould, P.Z.S., 1837, p. 145. ^^- '' 



" The nest and egg§ very much the same as those of G. lunulata, 

 Lath., but are larger ; the eggs are three for a sitting, of a greenish- 

 white, strongly freckled all over, but more numerously at the 

 larger end with rich reddish-brown ; some confluent markings 

 take a longitudinal direction or run obliquely with the long axis of 

 the egg. An average specimen measures 1-33 inches in length by 

 0'95 inch through its short diameter." (Bamsay, P.L.S., N.S. W., 

 2nd Series, Vol. i., p. 1147.) 

 Hah. Tasmania. 



Family PITTID^. 



Genus PITTA, Vieillot. 



^ PITTA STREPITANS, Temminch. 



Noisy Pitta. 

 Gould, ITandb. Eds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 269, p. 430. -227. / 



"This species is found plentifully in the dense "brushes " of the 

 Clarence and Richmond Rivers, and that I believe is its nearest 

 habitat to Sydney ;* while to the north its range extends to the 



* A single specimen was shot near WoUongong in 1883. (E.P.E.) 



