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GENUS ANELLOBIA (Cabanis.) 



THE members of this genus are closely allied to the Antochcerce, but differ from them in their 

 plumage. Two species inhabit Australia, and others are found in New Guinea and the adjacent 

 islands. 



ANELLOBIA LUNULATA (Gould). 



L UN ULA TED WA TTLE-B1RD. 



THE present species closely resembles its congener, Anellobia Mellivorz, in habits, and is, in fact, 

 the representative in Western Australia of that bird. It is found in almost every part of the 

 colony, generally among Banksia trees situated near rivers and lakes. It is particularly abundant near 

 the Swan River. It is very pugnacious, attacking with great fierceness every bird which invades the 

 solitude in which it delights. 



During its flight, which is quick and irregular, it utters a harsh and discordant note. 



It appears to have no settled time for breeding, and lays only one egg. The nest, which is 

 placed in the fork of an upright branch of a tree, or sometimes in a small bush, is constructed of 

 twigs, lined with hue grass and Zamia wool. The ego- which is in length one inch and two lines, 



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and in breadth nine and a half lines, is reddish-buff in colour, with marks of chestnut-brown and 

 chestnut-red thinly distributed over the surface. 



The sexes differ in size, but not in plumage. 



The crown of the head, back of the neck, and upper part of the back are deep olive-brown, 

 the feathers being darkest in the middle ; primaries, brown, the inner webs, for nearly their whole 

 length, deep chestnut ; secondaries and tertiaries, brown, margined with grey ; the tail-feathers, greyish- 

 brown, largely tipped with white ; sides of the neck, silvery-grey ; throat, greyish-brown, with a round, 

 silvery -grey spot at the extremity of each feather ; feathers of the chest and under surface, white, 

 with an arrow-shaped mark of greyish-brown at the extremity of each ; on each side of the chest an 

 oblique mark of pure white ; irides, dark-brown ; bill, black ; legs and feet, blackish-grey. 



Total length, 1*2 inches; bill, 1| inch; wing, (5| inches; tail, 5{ inches; tarsi, 1^ inch. 



Habitat : Western Australia. 



ANELLOBIA MELLIVOKA. 



BRUSH WATTLE-BIRD. 



WHEREVER the conditions are favourable for the growth of the Leptospermum (tea-tree), in 

 Tasmania, New South Wales and South Australia, this bird is found in great abundance. It 

 is comparatively rare in the interior of the continent, and is not found at all in Western Australia. 



