Like ita Dear congener, it ia found in most of the brushes and forests of the colony, its food 



being procured from anions tin- branches and loaves. 



The breeding season lusts from August to January, in which period it not only rears two or 



l>i k but also frequently acts as foster-parent to the young of the Bronze Cuckoo. The nest, 



t|„,se of all the other members of the genU8, is dome-shaped, hut is rather stronger than most of 

 the Others, being constructed nol only of grass, hut also of fibrous roots and small strips of bark, the 

 whole Usual, being lined with feathers. The size of the eggs, which are either four or five in number, 

 i-, eight and a half lines by six lines, and their colour is pearly-white, with spots of reddish-chestnut 

 distributed over the Mirface. 



[ n outward appearance the sexes are very similar, dissection being necessary to distinguish them. 



The forehead is rufoUS-brown; the upper surface and wings, brownish-olive; tail, olive-brown, 

 crossed bj a hand of blackish-brown ; cheeks, ear-coverts, throat and chest, greyish-white, each feather 

 margined with olive-grey; under surface, very light huff; irides, red; bill and feet, brown. 



Total length, I inches; bill, ' „, inch ; wing, % 2\ inches; tail, 2 inches; tarsi, f inch. 



Habitat : Tasmania. 



A ( A NTH I /A (JROPYGIALIS (Gould). 



CHESTNUT-HUMPED ACANTIIIZA. 



rilHE habitat of the present species is the interior of Xew South Wales, particularly about the 

 J- Liverpool Plains. 



It- habit- and mode of nidification are so similar to those of its congeners that a separate 

 description is not necessary. Suffice it to say that it feeds on insects, and builds a nest of a globular 

 form, though it is impossible to say exactly during what period it breeds. It is, most probably, however, 

 during the months of spring that the duty of incubation is performed. 



The head, upper surface, and wings are brown, tinged with olive; tail, brown, crossed near the 

 tip by a hand of black: throat and chest, greyish-white; rest of under surface, buffy white; irides, 

 brown : hill and feet, black. 



Total length, 3 , : inches; bill, } 2 inch; wing, 2 inches; tail, If inch; tarsi, f inch. 



Habitat : Xew South Wales. 



