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feathers snow white. C australis has long greenish-black plumes 

 on the throat ; bases of feathers dusky-brown or black. The nest 

 of G. coronoides is built at the extremity of a long, naked, slender 

 branch terminating in a thick bunch of twigs and leaves, and 

 are in most instances impossible to get at, thus the eggs are very 

 difficult to obtain. 



I give the measurements of a set of eggs of C. coronoides, taken 

 by Mr. K. H. Bennett, a gentleman who has paid particular 

 attention to this and the following species : a set of four taken 

 at Ivanhoe on the 1st of September 1885, are elongated in form, 

 of a pale greenish ground colour, finely, but thickly freckled with 

 scratches of light umber ; length (A) 143 x 1-01 inch ; (B) 1-62 

 X 1-03 inch; (C) 1-63 x 1 inch; (D) 1-63 x 1 inch. 



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

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

 Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 

 Australia. (Ramsay.) 



Genus COEONE, Kaup. 



- *-«■• CORONE AUSTRALIS, Gould. 



Australian Raven. 

 Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds , Vol. iii., p. 37. ^22: . K 



From a most interesting and exhaustive account by Mr. K. H. 

 Bennett in his MS. notes, of the nidification of this species, I extract 

 the following : — " The breeding season of this species is during 

 the months of September and October ; the nest is composed 

 outwardly of sticks, and lined with soft bark fibre, wool, &c., and 

 is placed in a variety of situations from the highest tree in a clump 

 to bushes of the giant or " old man " saltbush not more than four 

 feet high. Scattered over the plains, singly or in clumps of five 

 or six in number, are numerous small trees from six to twelve feet 



