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LANIAD^:. 
grey appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 
1-2 x 0-85 inch; (B) 1-2 x 0-85 inch; (C) M7 x 0-87 inch. 
Taken by Mr. James Ramsay, at Tyndarie, August 20th, 1879. 
Var. B. Ground colour apple-green, with a few minute dots of 
reddish-black evenly distributed over the whole surface; these 
eggs are similar in colour and markings to the eggs of one of the 
varieties of Qymnorhina leuconota. Length (A) 1'21 x0'87 inch ; 
(B) 1 • 16 x 0'9 inch; (C) 1*25 x 0 - 89 inch. Taken at Childers, 
South Gippsland, September 1878. 
Var. C. Ground colour light yellowish-brown, with a clouded 
coalesced patch on the larger apex of reddish-brown markings. 
Taken at Yendon, Victoria, September 1883. 
The breeding season commences in August and continues the 
three following months. 
Hob. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
CRACTICUS ROBUSTUS, Latham. 
(G. niyroyularis, Gould.) 
Black-throated Crow-shrike. 
Gould, ILandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 95, p. 180. 
The nest of this species is a rather large saucer-shaped structure; 
one now before me, from the Collection in the Australian 
Museum, is composed on the outside of long twigs of the “ Cotton 
Bush,” some of the pieces measuring eight inches in length, and 
the interior is neatly lined with grasses, and finer twigs ; the 
exterior measurement of the nest is six and a-half inches in 
diameter, by three inches in depth ; interior diameter four inches 
and a-half by one inch and three-quarters in depth ; the nest 
was placed on the horizontal branch of a tree about ten feet 
