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indeed should there not be they quietly set to work and scratch 

 it together again. The mounds of the Tallegallus are seldom 

 found on a great incline when a level spot can be obtained. They 

 frequently bring the ddbris from a considerable distance, and in 

 one instance on the Richmond River I noticed a place where about 

 a cartload had been scratched through a shallow part of a creek 

 three or four inches deep in water, and up the other side of the 

 bank to the mound, which was over forty yards distant. The 

 debris is always thrown behind them. The greatest number of 

 eggs taken from one mound at one time was thirty-six. This was 

 a very old mound and resorted to by several individuals. The 

 eggs vary much in size, and in shape from almost round to a long 

 oval, or pointed at the thin end ; their usual form is an oval 

 slightly smaller at one end. The shell is very thin, minutely 

 granulated, and snow-white in colour.'' {Ramsay, P.Z.S., 1876> 

 p. 116.) 



Dimensions of thirteen eggs taken from an egg-mound on 

 Taranya Creek, a branch of the Richmond River, in November 

 1866, by Dr. Ramsay are as follows: — length(A) 3'55x2'33 inches; 

 (B) 3-6 X 2-42 inches; (0) 3-55 x 2-4 inches; (D) 3-27 x 2-43 inches;' 

 (E) 3-59 X 2-4 inches ; (F) 3-65 x 2-25 inches ; (G) 3-58 x 2-27 ^ 

 inches ; (H) 3-58 x 2-39 inches ; (I) 3-9 x 2-4 inches ; (J) 3'47 x' 

 2-47 inches ; (K) 3-65 x 2-45 inches ; (L) 3-53 x 2-55 inches ; (M) ! 

 3'67x 2-5 inches. 



Sah. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 

 District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence River Districts, 

 New South Wales. (Bamsay.) 



Genus LEIPOA, Gould. 



LEIPOA OOELLATA, Gould. 

 Ocellated Leipoa. 

 OoulJ, Randbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 477, p. 155. 



This bird is an inhabitant of the scrubs and plains of the inland 

 portions of the continent of Australia, and is also met with in the 



