The nest is constructed of grasses and moss, lined with soft feathers, and is usually placed 

 in a small, low shrub. The eggs, two in number, arc butty-white, tinged with a stronger colour 

 towards the large end; tliev are nine lines in length and six lines in breadth. 



The crown of the head is bluish-black ; car-coverts, lunated space <>n the sides of; the chest/ 

 and primaries, black ; back of the neck, rich chestnut-brown, becoming lighter on the upper part of 

 the back: secondaries, wing-coverts and tail, grey, the latter tipped with white; throat, cheeks and 

 chest, white, the first with a line of chestnut-brown in the centre ; abdomen, flanks and under 

 tail-coverts, light chestnut brown ; irides, scarlet : bill, grey ; feet, greyish-brown. 



Habitats: New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. 



ACANTHORHYNCHUS SUPERCILIOSUS (Gould). 



WHITE - EYEBROW ED SPINE-BILL. 



TIMHIS, the western representative of the genus Acanthorhynchus, is found in considerable numbers 

 about Perth and Freniantle, where it mostly frequents the Banksia (honeysuckle) forests. It, 

 however, sometimes obtains its food from low shrubs, and even on the ground. Its song, which is 

 rather pretty, is always uttered while flying from branch to branch with a rapid and irregular 

 motion. 



It breeds in October, when it constructs a warm and compact' nest of tine grasses, threads 

 of bark and fibres, lined inside with feathers and Zamia wool. The colour of the two eggs laid by 

 it, is light buff, spotted with reddish-brown. They are nine lines long by six and a-half lines broad. 



The crown of the head, all the upper surface, wings and tail are greyish-brown; ear-coverts 

 are blackish-brown ; space over the eye, chin, and a broader line beneath the eye, white ; back part 

 of the neck, reddish-brown ; centre of the throat, chestnut, bounded below by a patch of white, 

 succeeded by another of black ; abdomen and under tail-coverts, brownish-grey : irides, red ; bill, 

 blackish-brown ; legs and feet, dark brown. 



Total length, 5^ inches ; bill, f J inch : wing, 2^ inches ; tail, 2£ inches ; tarsi, f inch. 



Habitat : Western Australia. 



