adjacent islands in every possible variety of situation. Its native name is Mur-re-a-rwoo. It possesses a 
very loud and distinct note, unlike that of every other bird I have yet heard ; the sound most commonly 
uttered is a loud clear whistle terminating in a singular guttural harsh catch, but in the cool of the evening, 
when perched on and sheltered in the thick foliage of one of the topmost branches of a Eucalyptus , it pours 
forth a regular succession of very pleasing notes. 
A nest taken on the 4th of December contained two nearly hatched eggs ; it was attached by the rim to 
a drooping branch of the swamp Melaleuca, about five feet from the ground ; was very deep and large, 
and formed of very narrow strips of the paper bark mixed with a few small twigs, the bottom of the interior 
lined with very fine wiry twigs. 
The eggs, which are large for the size of the bird, are of a beautiful bluish white, sparingly spotted all 
over with deep umber-brown and bluish-grey, the latter appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell; 
their medium length is one inch and three lines long by eleven lines broad. 
The sexes when fully adult differ so little in colour that they can scarcely be distinguished ; the male is 
however of a more uniform tint about the head, neck and throat, and has the yellowish olive of the upper 
surface of a deeper tint than the female. 
Head aud all the upper surface yellowish olive ; wings and tail-feathers dark brown ; the outer webs of 
the coverts and secondaries grey, margined and broadly tipped with white ; all but the two centre tail- 
feathers with a large oval-shaped spot of white on the inner, and the extremity of the outer web white, the 
white mark gradually increasing in size as the feathers recede from the centre until it becomes an inch long 
on the external one ; under surface white, washed with olive-yellow on the sides of the chest, each feather 
with an elongated pear-shaped mark of black down the centre ; bill dull flesh-red ; irides scarlet ; feet lead- 
colour. 
The young bird during the first year has the bill blackish brown instead of dull flesh-red ; the upper 
surface olive-brown, each feather strongly streaked down the centre with dark brown ; wings brown ; under 
surface of the shoulder and all the wing-feathers except the primaries margined with sandy red ; the black 
streaks on the breast more decided, and the white spot at the tip of the lateral tail-feathers much smaller 
than in the adult. 
The figures represent the two sexes of the natural size on a plant gathered in the brushes of New South 
Wales, the name of which I have not been able to ascertain. 
