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bro\mj thickly and uniformly- dispersed over the surface of the 

 shell, length 1-19 x 0-8 inch. 

 Habi Norfolk Island. 



MERULA VINITINCTA, GouU. 



"Vinous-tinted Ouzel. 



" Doctor Bird." Inhabitants of Lord Howe Island. 



Oould, Handbh. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii.,'App., sp. 5, p. 529. 



A nest of this species, taken during the month' of October, 

 1889, is elliptical in form, with a small cup-shaped depression 

 in the top, and is composed throughout of strips of palm leaves 

 and fibre of one of the species of Keniia peculiar to the Island, 

 together with skeletons of leaves, but without any special lining, 

 it measures exteriorly seven inches in diameter by five inches in 

 depth ; internally, three inches in depth by two inches and a half 

 across. Mr. Icely states that the nest was built in the branches 

 of a shrub not far from' the ground. The eggs are two in number 

 for a sitting, inclining to elongated ovals in form, slightly pointed 

 at the thinner end, of a pale greenish-grey ground colour, with 

 freckles, dots and longitudinal markings of reddish-brown dispersed 

 over the -entire surface of the shell, in some places a few nearly 

 obsolete blotches of purplish grey appear. Length (A) 1'15 x 0'77 

 inch J (B) 1-12 X 0-77 inch.-* 



Hob. Lord Howe Island. 



ZOSTEROPS TEKUIROSTRIS, Gould. 

 Long-billeol ZosteropB. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., App., sp. 9, p. 536.- 



This very distinct and well marked species Dr. Metcalfe found 

 breeding during the month of September, the nidification is 

 almost similar to that of other members of this widely distributed 

 genus found in Australia and elsewhere. The nests are round 



*'Kortlx, Becords Australian Museum, (1890) Vol. i., p. 36. 



