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MALACOCEECUS STEIATFS. 
Nidijicahon.—T^hc breeding-season of the '' Seven Brothers » lasts from March until July. The nest is 
placed in a cinnamon-bush, shrub, or bramble at about 4 feet from the ground, and is a compact cup-shaped 
structure, usually fixed m a fork, and made of stout grasses and plant-stalks, and lined with fine grass, which 
m some stances I have observed, was plucked green. The interior measures 2^ inches in depth by about 
3 m width. The eggs are two or three in number, small for the size of the bird, glossy in texture, and of a 
uniform opaque greenish blue. They measure from 0-91 to TO inch in length, by 0-7 to 0-74 in breadth. 
