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LANIADAE. 
in the open forest-lands of the former colony; both contiguous 
to the Dividing Range, and the Sea coast. It constructs a 
large cup-shaped nest, outwardly composed of sticks, and lined 
with twigs, grasses, and cow-hair, and placed in the fork of any 
suitable tree, sometimes in a Eucalyptus at a great height from 
the ground, at other times in a sapling about twenty feet high, and 
on several occasions I have taken its nest in the Melaleuca within 
ten feet of the ground. Eggs three in number for a sitting, 
elongated in form, and varying as much in the colour and 
disposition of their markings as the preceding species. I give the 
description of the varieties most frequently found. 
Var. A. Ground colour pale blue, marked and streaked all over 
with irregular shaped lines of reddish-brown, in some specimens 
the latter colour is smudged and clouded on some parts of the 
shell. Taken at Yendon, Victoria, September, 1878. 
Var. B. Ground colour bluish-white, streaked all over with very 
narrow faint lines of wood-brown. Taken near Adelaide, Soutli 
Australia 1863. 
Var. C. Ground colour bright apple-green with minute freckles 
of light red evenly distributed over the whole surface. Taken at 
Woodstock, Victoria, August 1870. 
Dimensions of Var. A which is an average sized set—length 
(a) l - 65 x 1T2 inch ; (b) l - 67 x D1 inch; (c) D67 x lT3inch. 
The months of August, September, and October constitute the 
breeding season of this species. 
Hab. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 
West and South-West Australia. ( Ramsay.) 
GYMNORHINA ORGANICUM, Gould. 
( G . hyperleucm, Gould.) 
Tasmanian Crow-shrike. 
Gould, Handlk. Bds. Amt., Vol. i., sp. 94, p. 178. 
This species represents in Tasmania the G. leuconota of the 
mainland, its nidification is similar to that of the preceding 
