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their nests from the sites usually chosen by this bird, the hollow 

 limbs of trees, and on several occasions found them breeding in 

 company with Gheramoeca leucosternum, in a hole in the side of a 

 bank of a creek, they prefer however to tunnel a hole where the 

 earth is harder than the site usually chosen by the White-breasted 

 Swallow for its nest. When resorting to the bank of a creek Mr. 

 Ramsay informs me the nest is cup-shaped, with a short spout and 

 is composed entirely of wiry rootlets and grasses, neither bark or 

 feathers being used as when placed in the hollow limb of a tree, 

 and that the burrows of the Pardalote can easily be detected from 

 those of the White-breasted Swallow by being smaller and rounder. 



The eggs are ovoid in form, and pure white ; a set of four taken 

 by Mr. E. L. Ramsay on the 6th November, 1889, from the end 

 of a tunnel two feet six inches in length in the bank of a creek in 

 Wattagoona horse paddock, measure as follows : — length (A) 0'72 

 X 0-56 inch; (B) 0-7 x 0-55 inch ; (0) 0-71 x 0-57 inch ; (D) 0-72 

 X 0-55 inch. 



Hob. Port Denison, Dawson River, New South Wales, Interior, 

 Victoria and South Australia, West and South-west Australia. 

 {Bamsay.) 



COLLYRIOCINCLA PARVISSIMA, Gould. 

 Smaller ETifous-breasted Thrusli. 

 Gould, Ann. & Mag., Nat- Hist., Vol. x., p. 114. JZMJS 



Mr. J. A. Boyd of the Herbert River, Queensland, has kindly 

 sent the following notes relative to the nidification of this species 

 together with the bird and two sets of the eggs for description : — • 

 "The nest of this species internally is cup-shaped and is a sub- 

 stantially built structure, composed principally of fibrous bark 

 with a few leaves woven in, it is usually built in a fork about a 

 couple of feet from the ground, I saw one however about eight 

 feet up in a Mango ; the last neSt I found was in a stunted 

 Draccena. This season (1889-90) C. parvissima, commenced to 

 breed in September, the first nest I found being on the 14th of 



