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SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOGUE OF “ 
EGGS OF BIRDS FOUND BREEDING IN 
NESTS AND 
AUSTRALIA 
AND TASMANIA.” 
By A. J. North. 
[ Part 1 . , M arcl i , 1891 . 
Ninox connivkns, Latham. Winking Owl. 
Gould , Handbk. lids. Austr., Vol. i., sp. 34, p. 71. 
Although the present species is widely distributed over the 
Australian continent, but little knowledge has been gained of its 
nidification and eggs, and it is due to the exertions of Mr. George 
Barnard and his sons, of Duaringa, Queensland, that I am enabled 
to give a description of this rare egg, taken at Coomooboolaroo, 
during September 1886. The nesting place was in a Eucalyptus 
the (;ntrance of which was through the end of a small hollow 
spout opening into the main trunk of the tree ; here Mr. Barnard’s 
sons made an aperture with an axe, and the eggs two in number, 
were found deposited on the decaying wood near the bottom of 
the tree. Last year three more eggs of the same species were 
taken from this tree, in both instances being perfectly fresh. The 
egg of Ninox connivem is rounded in form, and pure white, the 
texture of the shell being very line and the surface slightly glossy. 
Long diameter 1*84 inch, short diameter 1*61 inch. 
Mr. W. B. Barnard informs me that he found a nest of this 
species, about eighteen inches down the hollow limb of a large 
Eucalyptus, containing three young ones, from which it may be 
inferred that like N. boobook , three eggs is the usual number laid 
by this bird for a sitting. 
llab. Australia, with the exception of North-west. 
Ailurcepus viridis, Latham. The Cat-bird. 
Gould , Handbk. /ids. Austr.,Y ol. i., sp. 277, p. 446. 
The habitat of the Cat-bird is the dense scrubs of the coastal 
ranges of New South Wales. It is particularly plentiful at 
Cambewarra and the Kangaroo Valley, in the IlJawarra District, 
and is found in favourable localities all through the southern 
portions of the coast ranges, becoming scarcer however as the 
boundary of the colony is approached. The rich brushes in the 
neighbourhood of the Clarence, Richmond, and Tweed Rivers are 
also strongholds of this species, and it is also found, but not so 
freely dispersed in the extreme south of Queensland. Although 
a common and well known bird for many years, being described 
