SUPPLEMENT TO NESTS AND EGGS OE AUSTR. BIRDS— NORTH. 11 
Dimensions. 
Total length 
Length of head 
Width of head 
Body 
100 millim. 
11-5 ” 
Fore limb... 
Hind limb 
Tail 
Habitat . — Interior of New South Wales. 
The species here described belongs to the tuberculated section 
of the genus, but differs in several constant characters from each 
of the three described forms belonging to that section ; from 
ciliaris it is manifestly different in the absence of spinous tubercles 
on the supraciliary region, while from strophurus it is equally well 
distinguished by the presence of tubercles on the tail ; its nearest 
ally, therefore, is sponger us, whose place it would appear to take 
in the interior of this Colony ; from that species, however, it differs 
in the following, among other, characters : — The snout is very 
much longer; the dorsal tubercles form two regular longitudinal 
series ; there are eleven to thirteen upper and ten to twelve lower 
labials only ; and the tail is armed with transverse rows of strong 
tubercles ; while in spinigerus the snout is only a little longer 
than the diameter of the orbit, the tubercles are irregularly scat- 
tered over the dorsal surface, there are thirteen to fifteen upper, 
and as many lower labials, and the caudal tubercles are arranged 
in a single longitudinal series on each side of the tail and are black. 
SUPPLEMENT to the DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of 
“ NESTS and EGGS of BIRDS FOUND BREEDING in 
AUSTRALIA and TASMANIA.” 
[Part II., April 1892.] 
By A. J. North, F.L.S. 
Since the” issue of Part I. the following new nests and eggs have 
been obtained and are herein described : — Edoliisoma tenuirostre , 
Turnix melanotus , Ptilotis frenata, and Polytelis alexandrcv. 
Descriptions of nests and eggs also appear that are not given in 
the Catalogue, as well as additional information on the nidifica- 
tion of other species. I here express my indebtedness to the col- 
