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bluish-green, sprinkled all over with light reddish-brown dots and 

 spots, larger and more crowded on the thicker end, and with also 

 a few irregular linear scratchy markings or hair lines. The nest 

 and eggs were taken at Stanwell in the lUawarra district, by Mr. 

 Ralph Hargrave." (Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S. W., Vol. ii., p. 107.) 



I had the pleasure of examining the above set of eggs, and the 

 most striking characteristic about them is their unusually small 

 dimensions for the size of the bird. 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 

 (Ramsay ) 



Z AILURCEDUS MACULOSUS, Ramsay. 



The Queensland Cat -bird. 

 P.Z.S., 1874, p. 601. 



" This bird is a native of the dense scrubs that are to be found 

 in the neighbourhood of Rockingham Bay, and the Johnstone, 

 Russell, and Mulgrave Rivers in tropical Queensland. They 

 congregate in small flocks in the palms and fig-trees from which 

 they obtain their food. During a recent excursion to the 

 Bellenden-Ker Ranges, Messrs. E. J. Cairn and Robert Grant, 

 collecting on behalf of the Trustees of the Australian Museum^ 

 succeeded in obtaining, among others, a fine series of these birds 

 in different stages of plumage ; and, besides finding several nests 

 with young birds, they were fortunate in obtaining, although very 

 late in the season, a nest containing eggs. The nest and eggs in 

 question were found on December 2nd, 1887, in the fork of a 

 sapling about seven feet from the ground, on the Herberton road 

 at a distance of thirty-two miles from Cairns. The nest is a neat 

 bowl-shaped structure, composed of long twigs and leaves of a 

 TriMnnin, lined inside with twigs and the dried wiry stems of 

 a climbing plant ; on the outside several nearly perfect leaves of 

 the Tristania are worked in, and partially obscure one side of 

 the nest. Exterior diameter seven inches, by four inches and 

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