238 OEETHIINiB. 



3 CLIMACTEEIS RUFA, GouU. 



Eufous Tree-creeper. 



Gould, Sandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 367, p. 600. 



" This species makes a very warm nest of soft grasses, the down 

 of flowers and feathers in the hollow part of a dead branch, 

 generally so far down that it is almost impossible to reach it, and. 

 it is, therefore very difficult to find. I discovered one by seeing 

 the old birds beating away a Wattle-bird that tried to perch near 

 their hole ; the nest, in this instance, was fortunately within arm's 

 length ; it contained three eggs of a pale salmon colour, thickly 

 blotched all over with reddish-brown, eleven lines long by eight 

 and a-half lines broad : this occurred during the first week in 

 October." (Gould, Handhh. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., p. 600.) 



Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Western Australia. (^Ramsay.) 



i CLIMAOTERIS ERYTHROPS, Gould. 



Eed-eyebrowed Tree-creeper. 

 Gould, Handhk. Birds Aust, Vol. i., sp. 368, p. 602. -221. Z^- 



The nest of this species, like all other members of the genus, is 

 built of grasses, lined with feathers and placed in one of the 

 numerous spouts or hollow branches of the Eucalypts. 



" I am indebted to Mr. K. H. Bennett, of Mossgiel for a fine 

 set of the eggs of this species, the first I had seen ; they closely 

 resemble some of the varieties of those of Pienoedus ru/escens, but 

 have a climacterine look about them, and a smooth shell. The 

 ground colour, apparently white, is obscured with evenly dispersed 

 dots and freckles of a rich red, which, occasionally confluent, 

 form elongated spots here and there ; some have a zone formed 

 by confluent spots of red intermixed with slate or lilac-brown, and 

 here the spots are largest, and the lilac marks appear beneath the 

 shell. The following are the measurements : — (A) 0-83 x 0-65 

 inch; (B) 0-85 x 0-63 inch; (C) 0-82 x 0-63 inch." (Ramsay, 

 P.L.8., N.8.W., 2nd Series, Vol. L, p. 1149.) 



