178 soENOPHDa;. 



a-half in depth ; interior diameter four inches and three-quarters, 

 by two inches and a-half in depth. Eggs two in number for a 

 sitting, nearly true ovals in form, tapering but slightly at one end, 

 of a uniform creamy-white ; the shell is thin, the surface being 

 smooth and slightly glossy. (A) 1-67 x 1-11 ; (B) 1-63 x Tl inch. ^ 

 Both parent birds were procured at the time of taking the eggs, 

 which were in a very advanced state of incubation. In addition 

 to finding a great number of other nests, several very young birds of 

 Macropygiaphasianella, Ptilopus sv/perhus, and Orthonyx spaldingi 

 were also obtained in the same locality, showing that the breeding 

 season had just terminated. It is only right to mention that the 

 eggs described above are not altogether, what from analogy, they 

 might be expected to be, being quite different from those of any 

 other species of the family Scenopiidce. Messrs Cairn and Grant, 

 however, state that there can be no doubt as to their authenticity. 

 (Aust. Mus. Coll.)" (North, P.L.S., N.S. W., Vol. iii., 2nd Series, 

 p. 147.) 



Hob. Rockingham Bay District and Bellenden-Ker Ranges. 

 {Eamsay.) 



Genus CHLAMYDODEEA, Gould. 



CHLAMYDODERA MACULATA, Gould. 



Spotted Bower-bird. 



Gould, Hcmdhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 279, p. 450. 2r ^ 



" Our knowledge of the range of this species has recently been 

 extended to Cape York; previously Rockingham Bay was 

 considered its northern limit on the coast, and the Murray district 

 in Victoria, and South Australia, its most southern range. The 

 interior provinces are the stronghold of this species, where it is 

 found plentifully dispersed all over the Lachlan and Darling River 

 districts. It also occurs inland about eighty miles west from 

 Rockhampton. 

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