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resembled the branch on which it was placed. The egg is ovoid 
in form, of a very pale bluish-grey ground colour, uniformly 
spotted and dotted with irregular shaped markings of different 
shades of umber and slaty-brown, underlying blotches of slaty- 
grey appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length 
1*2 x 0*82 inch. In the colour and disposition of its markings, 
it resembles some varieties of the eggs of Sitlella chrysoptera , and 
in shape and size that of the egg of Graucalus hyperleucus , but 
is entirely free from the asparagus-green ground colour which 
predominates in the eggs of the latter genus. This is the only 
occasion I have known of the nest and egg of this species having 
been taken. 
The northern and eastern portions of the Australian Continent 
constitutes the habitat of this species. 
