TKOMDQBHKNDHUS. SI? 



Sab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 

 Tasmania. fBamsaif.') 



' ANELLOBIA LUNULATA, GauM. 



Lunulated Wattle-bird. 

 Gould, Hcmdbk. Bds. Aitst., Vol. i., sp. 333, p. 543. 



" A remarkable circumstance, says Gilbert, connected with the 

 incubation of this bird is that it appears to lay but a single egg 

 and to have no regular time of breeding, its nest being found in 

 abundance from August to November. It is rather small in size, 

 and is deposited in the fork of a perpendicular growing branch : 

 the tree most generally chosen is that called by the colonists of 

 Swan River the stink-wood, but it has been found in the parasitic 

 clump of a Banksia, and also in a small scrubby bush two or three 

 feet from the ground ; but it is more frequently constructed at a 

 height of at least eight or twelve. It is formed of dried sticks, 

 and lined with Zamia wool, soft grasses or flowers, and sometimes 

 with sheep's wool. The egg is rather lengthened in form, being 

 one inch and two lines long by nine and a-half lines broaid ; its 

 ground colour is a full reddish-buff thinly spotted and marked 

 with deep chestnut-brown and chestnut-red, some of the spots and 

 markings appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell, and 

 being most thickly disposed near the larger end." (Gould, 

 Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., p. 543.) 



Hab. West Australia. 



Genus TEOPIDORHYNCHUS, Vigors and Horsfield. 



TROPIDORHYNCHFS CORNICULATIJS, Latliam. 

 Priar Bird. 

 Gould, Handhh. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 334, p. 545. 



This bird is plentifully dispersed over the eastern and south- 

 eastern portions of the continent of Australia. A nest of this 

 species in the Australian Museum Collection, is an open cup- 



