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beneath the surface of tlie shell. Length (A) 0'63 x 0'46 inch ; 

 (B) 0-63 X 0'47 inch. 



Hah. Norfolk Island. 



GERYGONE MODESTA, Pelzeln. 

 The Ashy-fronted Gerygone. 

 Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 221. 



The nidifioation of this species is somewhat similar to other 

 members of the same genus found in Australia, New Zealand, 

 and the Austro-Malayan region. The nest is a pointed oval in 

 form, with an entrance in the side near the top, usually protected 

 with a hood ; it is composed exteriorly of mosses, grasses, fibrous 

 roots, spiders' webs and nests, and warmly lined inside with 

 feathers, and is suspended by the top to the end of a slender 

 hanging branch. Eggs two to four in number for a sitting, 

 closely resembling those of the Australian species, G. fusca, they 

 are oval in form, one specimen sent being a rosy-white, thickly 

 covered over the entire surface of the shell with minute red and 

 pink-red markings, length 0'64 x 0'48 inch; another specimen 

 is of a delicate white, with short scratchy markings more 

 sparingly distributed, but in some places confluent, length 0-65 

 x 0-48 inch. 



Hah. Norfolk Island. 



PETRCECA MULTICOLOR, Gmelin. 

 Norfolk Island Robin. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., App., sp. 2, p. 526. 



From Dr. Metcalfe's description of the nidifioation of the 

 Norfolk Island Robin, it will be seen that the nest of this species 

 is precisely similar to that of P- leggii and P. phcenicea, of 

 Australia and Tasmania. The nest is a round deeply cup- 

 shaped structure, composed exteriorly of mosses, fibre, and dried 



