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more numerous on the larger end. Two eggs in the Australian 

 Museum Golleotion measure as follows : — length (A) 0-77 X 0*57 

 ineh ; (B) 076 x 0-54 inch. 



A set taken at Dobroyde in September 1860, giv6 the 

 following measurements : — length (A) 0'73 x 0-54 inch ; (B) 

 0-75 X 0-55 inch. 



In New South Wales this species commences to breed in August 

 and continues during the four following months. 



Shb, Wide Bay district, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. {Ramsay.) 



^ ACANTHORHYNCHUS DUBIUS, Gould. 



Gould, P.Z.S., part v., p. 25. 



" Some ornithologists do not consider this a good species, Mr. 

 Gould himself, who first pointed out its diflference from the 

 northern and eastern Australian continental forms, inclining to 

 believe them identical ; but as the Tasmanian bird is smaller in 

 all its admeasurements, and much richer and deeper in the tints 

 of the under surface, I give the description of a set of eggs taken 

 near Hobart in October 1885. Eggs two in number for a sitting 

 of a pale buHj approaching a light saturnine-yellow on the larger 

 end, where they are minutely spotted with irregularly shaped 

 markings of deep chestnut-brown, and a few nearly obsolete 

 spots of bluish-grey. Length (A) 0-73 X 0-53 inch ; (B) 0-75 x 0-54 

 inch." (North, P.L. S., -KS. W., 2nd Series, Vol. ii., p. 408.) 



Hoi. Tasmania. (Gould.) 



a ACANTHORHYNCHUS SUPERCILIOSUS, Gould. 



WMte-eyebrowed Spine-bUl. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 340, p. 553. 



" The nest, which is constructed among the large-leaved Banfcsias, 

 is of a round «onipact f orm, and is composed of dried fine gfassea, 



