It breeds in October and November, two or three eggs being laid in a nest built of Blacks, 

 lined with soft hark and leaves. The eggs are two inches and a-sixth long, hy one inch and a-half 

 broad, and in colour are buffy-white, irregularly marked with reddish-brown. 



The head and ear-eoverts are ferruginous brown, the ear-coverts bounded beneath by a line 

 of black ; back, wings, and tail, dark brown, the wing-feathers margined with light reddish-brown, and 

 the tail barred with the same colour; under surface, light buff, becoming much darker on the flanks, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts, and each feather marked with reddish-brown; irides, dark red; bill, legs, 

 and feet, grey. 



Habitats: New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania. 



