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that month, which contained three eggs, and the last with two 

 fresh eggs in it on the 2nd of January." 



Eggs three in number for a sitting, ovoid in form, pearly-wliite 

 one set being evenly spotted over the surface of tlie shell with 

 umber-brown and slaty-grey markings. Length (A) 098 x 74 

 inch ; (B) 1 X 073 inch : (C) 0-97 x 0-73 inch. In the other set 

 the markings are mostly confined to the larger end, being heavily 

 blotched with umber-brown and superimposed markings of dark 

 slaty-grey. 



Hah. Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, South 

 Coast of New Guinea. [Ramsay.) 



HETEROMYIAS CINEREIFRONS, Ramsay. 

 Ashy-fronted Flycatcher. 

 " Win-dan." Aborigines of Cairns District. ♦ 

 Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1875, p. 588. 



During September and October of 1889, several nests of 

 this species were obtained by Messrs. Cairn and Grant, in the 

 scrubs of the Herberton tableland, in every instance they were 

 found in the " lawyer vines " (a species of Calamus), about four or 

 five feet from the ground, several of these nests now before me 

 are built between the forked stems, or where several vines cross 

 each other, in other instances they are placed at the base 

 of leaves on the thin horizontal stems, to which the nest is 

 attached. The outside of the nest is formed of thin twigs, wiry 

 rootlets, skeletons of leaves, and the fibre of the " lawyer vine," the 

 inside which is cup-shaped, being neatly lined with finer materials, 

 while the exterior portion of the nest is ornamented with mosses 

 and lichens, which gives* it a pleasing appearance. Exterior 

 diameter 4'5 inches, depth 4 inches, internal diameter 2'75 inches, 

 depth 11 inch. The eggs are two in number for a sitting, and 

 closely resemble in shape and colour large specimens of Artamus 

 snjyercUiosus, being of a dfell buffy-white grouiid coloHir, thickly 



