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shaped structure outwardly composed of long, narrow, strips of 

 stringy-bark, wool, and grass, firmly matted together, and lined 

 inside with fine dried grasses, it is attached by the rim to a thin 

 forked branch of a Eucalyptus, which is entirely hidden by the 

 materials of which the nest is composed being worked over it ; it 

 measures exteriorly six inches and three-quarters in diameter, by 

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

 depth two inches and a-quarter. Another nest in the same 

 collection, measures one inch deeper, externally and internally. 

 The nest is always built at the extremity of a thin branch, some- 

 times within a few feet of the ground, but not unfrequently at an 

 altitude of forty or fifty feet. 



Eggs three in number for a sitting, usually elongated in form ; 

 among a number of sets now before me, no two have exactly the 

 same tints of ground colour or markings ; and fad^ very much 

 after being exposed to the light for any length of time. Two 

 eggs in the Australian Museum Collection, are of a rich salmon 

 colour, heavily blotched with chestnut-red and deep bluish-grey ; 

 the latter colour appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. 

 Length (A) 1-26 x 0-9 inch ; (B) 1-22 x 0-9 inch. 



A set in the Dobroyde Collection taken by Mr. James Ramsay at 

 Cardington, in December 1867, are elongated in form, of a dull, 

 light pinkish-salmon colour, spotted and blotched with faint 

 chestnut, and intermingled with obsolete markings of slaty-lilac, 

 particularly towards the larger end. Length (A) 1'37 x 0*9 inch; 

 (B) 1-44 X 0-92 inch; (C) 1-38 x 0-92 inch. 



The breeding season commences in October and extends over 

 the months of November and December. 



ffab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 

 South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. {Ramsay^ 



