Si^ MiiBPHAdfiD'k. 



ap^6si;ring as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 1-25 

 X 0-88 inch ; (B) 1-3 x 0-86 inch. 



This species commences to breed in August and continues 

 during the three following months. 



Hcih. Wide Bay District, B,ichmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 

 West and South- West Australia. (Ramsay.) 



Genus ANELLOBIA, Cabanis. 



? - ^ ANELLOBIA MELLIVORA, LatJtam. 



Brush Wattle-bird. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 332, p. 541. 32Z^ • ^ 



The Brush Wattle-bird is found throughout the eastern and 

 southern portions of Australia, and the whole of Tasmania. I 

 found this species breeding in great numbers during October 1882 

 near-Hastings, at Western Port. The nest is an open one, outwardly 

 cwaposed of fine twigs, lined inside with roots, and placed in the 

 fork of a tree, not far from the ground, low Eucalyptus saplings, 

 being especially favoured in this respect. The eggs are two or 

 three in number for a sitting. 



A set in the Australian Museum Collection are of a rich salmon 

 ecdour, spotted and blotched with irregularly shaped clouded 

 markings of dark chestnut-broWn, and a few of reddish-brown, 

 together with sub-Surface markings of deep bluish-grey, particularly 

 towards the larger end, where they assume the form of a zon€. 

 Length (A) 1'04 xO'75 inch; (B) 1-02 x 0-76 inch. 



There is very little variation shown in a number of sets taken at 

 Dobroyde by Dr. Ramsay during 1858-60, and those-procuredby 

 myself at Hastings in 1882. 



The 'breeding season of this species extends during the months 

 of -September, October, November, and Decranber. 



