Tlic nest, !>uili of small sticks, lined with feathers and various soft grasses, i> generally placed 

 on an upright fork of a small gum-tree. The eggs, eleven and a half lines long by nine lines broad, are 

 of a rich orange-buff, with scarcely noticeable spots of a darker tint. 



The head and all the Upper surface are (lull grey, with an indistinct line of brown down the 

 centre of each leather; wings and tail, ,brown, margined at the base of the external webs with wax- 

 yellow, the tail terminating in white ; throat and under surface, dull grey, the feathers of the breast 

 having a crescent-shaped mark of light brown near the extremity; lores, line beneath the eye, and ear- 

 COVerts, black; irides, dark brown; natch round the eye, and bill, bright yellow; legs and feet, dull 

 reddish-yellow. 



Total length, !).', inches; bill. I[ inch; wing, o± inches; tail, 4^ inches: tarsi, I \ inch. 

 Habitat : South-western part of Australia. 



