S ORKOCINCLA (Gould), 



SEVERAL members of this genus inhabit India and tin ■ adjacent islands. Only one is found in 

 Usl ralia. 



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OREGCnSTCLA LUNULATA. 



MOUNTAIN THRUSH. 



rilHE Mountain Thrush is found in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and sometimes, 1 > u t rarely 



■ in South Australia. It generally inhabits the thick forests on the sides of mountain ranges, or 

 the banks of rocky gullies and creeks. 



A certain amount of difference of size and colouring exists between specimens from Tasmania 

 and those obtained on the continent, but not enough to warrant their separation into two species. 



Its fend consists chiefly of insects, seeds and berries, in search of which it may he seen 

 generally in pairs, hopping over the ground. Like the CinclosowiCB, its powers of flight are very 

 small and seldom exercised. Its note is a rather musical and pleasing whistle. 



It breeds in August and the two following months, when it builds a nest of moss and 

 fibrous roots on one of the low branches of a tree. The eggs, the average length of which is one 

 inch and three-eighths, and the breadth seven-eighths of an inch, are light buff-colour, speckled with 

 reddish-brown. 



The whole of the upper surface, wings and tail are olive-brown, each feather narrowly margined 

 with black : under surface, white, tinged with buff on the breast and Hanks, each feather, except those 

 of the centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts, with a lunar-shaped mark of black near the 

 tip : hides, dark brown ; bill, dark horn-colour ; le<»\s and feet, olive. 



Habitats: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. 



