miimsm. 313 



immense inundated areas of Polygonum bushes that skirt the 

 edges of the Lachlan River in the neighourhood of Hillston, New 

 South Wales, breaking down the bushes and forming a nest of 

 sticks, twigs, and reeds, just above the surface of the waterv 

 The eggs are very faint greenish-white on the outer surface 

 becoming much darker in tint on the inside. The shell is 

 lustreless and minutely pitted all over. In a number of 

 the eggs of this species now before me, there is a great variation 

 in their form, some being true ovals, others elongated, swollen, 

 and pointed ovals. 



Specimens in the Australian Museum Collection give the 

 following measurements: — length (A) 2-58 inches x 178 inch; 

 (B) 2'59 inches x 1-76 inch. Dimensions of specimens in the 

 Dobroyde Collection are as follows : — length (A) 2 '6 inches x 1'7 

 inch ; (B) 2-52 inches x 1-75 inch ; (C) 2-52 inches x 1-75 inch j 

 (D) 2-71 inches X 1-68 inch; (E) 2-57 inches x 1-77 inch; (F) 

 2-49 inches x 1-7 inch. 



This species breeds during the months of October, November, 

 and December. 



Sah. Port Darwin and Port • Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond 

 and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 

 Victoria and South Australia, South Coast New Guinea. (Mamsay.) 



Genus PLATIBIS, Bonaparte. 



PLATIBIS FLAVIPES, Gould. 

 Yellow-legged Spoonbill. 

 Gould, Randhh. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., sp. 542, p. 288. 



From a description of the breeding places of this bird given by 

 Mr. K. H. Bennett in the P.L.S. of N.S.W., Vol. vii., p. 324, I 

 have made the following extract : — 



"About December 1879, I found this species breeding in great 

 numbers in company with Ardea ^aeifica, in a belt of low trees,' 



