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"by Latham in 1802, as Gvacula viridis , from specimens brought 
to England by Captain King, which were procured at Port Jack- 
son, the authentic nest and eggs of this species appear until lately 
to have been unknown. Dr. Ramsay described a nest and eggs, 
said to belong to this species, in the Proceedings of the Linnean 
Society of New South Wales,* upon the authority of the late Mr. 
Ralph Hargrave who had taken them near Stanwell, in the Tlla- 
warra District, but Dr. Ramsay himself had some misgivings at 
the time as to their authenticity, on account of the comparatively 
small dimensions of the eggs for the size of the bird, doubts which 
I fully shared with him when I saw the specimens referred to 
some years afterwards. 
The finding of the nest and eggs of a closely allied species, the 
Queensland Cat-bird, Ailurcedus maculosus , Ramsay, by Messrs. 
Cairn and Grant, from which the parent birds were shot, and 
which were described by me in the Proceedings of the Linnean 
Society of New South Wales,! dispelled at once any idea as to the 
nest and eggs of the so-called A. viridis , taken by Mr. Hargrave 
being authentic. 
For an opportunity of examining an authentic nest and egg of 
the New South Wales, Cat-bird, Ailurcedus viridis , Latham, I am 
indebted to Mr. W. J. Grime, a most enthusiastic and persevering 
oologist, who recently procured two nests of this species on the 
Tweed River, and sent the following notes relative to the taking 
of them ; — 
“ On the 4th of October, 1890, I was out looking for nests 
accompanied by a boy. 1 left him for a little while to go further 
in the scrub, and on my return he informed me he had found a 
Cat-bird’s nest with two eggs in, one of which he showed me, the 
other one he broke descending the tree. I went with him to the 
nest and found the old birds very savage, Hying at us, and flutter- 
ing along the ground. The nest was built in a three pronged 
fork of a tree, about fourteen feet from the ground. The tree 
was only four inches in diameter, and was in a jungle or light 
scrub, about fifty yards from the edge of the open country. I 
felled the tree and secured the nest, of which there is no doubt 
as to its being authentic, as the old birds strongly objected to my 
taking it. The eggs had been sat on for a few days and were 
partially incubated.” 
In a subsequent letter dated November the 8th, Mr. Grime 
writes, “ To day I found another Cat-bird’s nest and drove the 
parent bird off it myself. I thought I had more eggs as the Cat- 
bird would not leave the nest until fairly shaken out, but when 
I examined the nest found two young birds in it, apparently just 
hatched a couple of days.” 
* Proc. Linn. Sue. N.S.W., Yol. ii., (1877) p. 107. 
f Proc. Linn. Sue., N.S.W., Vul. iii., Second Series, (1888) p. 147. 
