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JStemonites ferruginea Rost.; Parramatta, on a charred log (E. 

 Cheel; March, 1908). S. Jusca Rost.; Leura and Centennial 

 Park (A. A. Hamilton); Botanic Gardens, Sydney (E. Cheel and 

 W. Blakely); Mount Macedon, Victoria (E. Cheel); on decaying 

 ience-rails, stems of Buffalo-grass (Stenotaphrum americanum 

 Schrank), and trunks of Draccena nutans Cunn. Recorded in 

 these Proceedings, Vol. xxxii. p.205 (1907) as S. ferruginea Rost. 

 Mr. North exhibited the nest and eggs of Newton's Bower-bird 

 ( Prionodura newtoniana De Vis) and of the Tooth-billed Bower- 

 bird (Scenopceetes dentirostris Ramsay), together with skins of 

 the females shot near the nests. They were obtained through the 

 instrumentality of Mr. Robert Grant, from Messrs. John and 

 George Sharp, of whom the latter procured them respectively on 

 the 9th and 7th November, 1908, on the Bellender Ker Range, 

 after waiting near the nests for over an hour, and flashing the 

 females from them several times, before shooting them and taking 

 the nests and ejigs. The nest of Prionodura newtoniana is an 

 open cup-shaped structure formed externally of dead leaves and 

 portions of leaves, including fragments of stag-horn ferns and a 

 small quantity of dried mosses, and is lined inside at tlie bottom 

 with thin dead twigs. Externally it measures 5^ inches in 

 diameter by 2-J- in depth, the inner cup measuring 4J inches in 

 diameter by 1 J in depth. It was built about the centre of an 

 opening 4 feet long and about 6 inches wide, inside in a rotten 

 tree, 3 feet*from the ground, and contained two eggs. The eggs 

 are oval in form, the shell being finely granulate, lustrous, and 

 of a uniform fleshy-white. Length (A) 1-4 x 0-98 inches; (B) 

 1*38 x 0*97 inches. The nest of Scenopoeetes dentirostris is a 

 slightly concave structure, formed throughout of twigs; coarser 

 ones below, and finer ones above, as a resting place for the 

 eggs; it is most flimsy and loosely built, and resembles one of the 

 smaller pigeon's, or a dove's nest, and averages 5 inches in 

 diameter by 2 inches in depth. It was placed in a low, thickly- 

 foliaged tree, about 17 feet from the ground and in the most 

 dense part of the scrub. The nest contained two eggs, which are 

 oval in form, the shell being very finely granulate, lustrous, and 



