VI. 
Australian birds, collected by him during his visits to that colony 
in 1863, and in 1868. 
Mr. George Barnard of Coomooboolaroo, Queensland, and his 
sons, have contributed largely towards a knowledge of the 
nidification of a number of the birds of Central Queensland, and 
I have to acknowledge the assistance and the loan of specimens 
for description from Dr. James C. Cox, and Dr. George Hurst of 
Sydney, and Mr. E. D. Atkinson of Tasmania. 
It must be borne in mind that this is a Descriptive Catalogue 
of the Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, remarks therefore 
on each species are necessarily very brief, but in order to some¬ 
what relieve the monotony of one technical description following 
another, and where the eggs have been previously described, I 
have given in full in some instances, papers contributed at various 
times by Dr. Ramsay to the “ Ibis,” entitled “ Notes on Birds 
breeding in the Neighbourhood of Sydney,” and in addition given 
extracts, which I thought might prove of interest, from other 
papers furnished by the same author to kindled societies and 
publications. 
Of the 469 species here described, with the exception of those of 
34 taken from Mr. Gould’s “Handbook to the Birds of Australia,” 
I have personally examined those of every species, and need 
hardly state that they have been taken only from thoroughly 
authentic specimens. 
Appended is a list of those birds of which, as far as is known, 
no authentic information has been recorded of their having been 
found breeding in Australia or Tasmania, but which have been 
found in other parts of the world, and fully described by different 
authors ; these being only visitors or stragglers to Australia, are 
not included in this work. 
For the nomenclature I have followed the authors of the 
Catalogues of Birds in the British Museum, and Dr. Ramsay’s 
List of the Birds of Australia, the habitats also being taken from 
the latter work. No systematic arrangement has been adopted 
