G6 
PACHYCEPHAUNiE. 
PACHYOEPHALA GLAUCURA, Gould. 
Grey-tailed Thickhead. 
* 
Gould, Ilnndbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 114, p. 209. 
The nest of this species is similar to that of P. yutturalis. The 
eggs are three in number for a sitting, and closely resemble in 
shape and colour those of that species, being of a faint creamy- 
white, with a zone of confluent brownish-black spots and dots, 
intermingled with others of a dark slaty-grey, the latter appearing 
as if beneath the surface of the shell. Dimensions of a set of three 
taken in October 1885, are as follows, length (A) 0‘97 x 065 inch ; 
(B) 0 - 97 x 0'6G inch ; (C) 095 x 065 inch. 
A set in the Collection of Dr. Cox gives the following measure¬ 
ments : — length (A) 0'98 x 0 - 7 inch ; (B) 0'95 x O’GG inch ; (C) 
0-93 x OG7 inch. 
Specimens in the Macleayan Museum Collection measure—(A) 
0-97 x 069 inch ; (B) 0'97 x O'GS inch; (C) 0'9G x 0’G7 inch. 
October and the two following months constitutes the breeding 
season of this species. 
Hal. Tasmania. (Ramsay ) 
PACITYCEPHALA MELANURA, Gould. 
Black-tailecl Thickhead. 
Gould, Hamlbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 115, p. 211. 
The nest is a cup-shaped, shallow, rather scanty structure, of 
line roots and twigs lined with rootlets and grass, through 
the bottom of which the eggs can be seen; it is about three to four 
inches in diameter by one and a half deep. The eggs are three 
in number, of a pale buff with irregular spots of dark umber 
sparingly scattered over the surface, but forming a zone near the 
thicker end. Length (A) 0'85 x 0'G4 inch ; (B) 0’84x0'62 inch. 
[Ramsay, P.L.S., H.S.W., Yol. ii., p. 47. 
Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Cape York, Dawson River, South Coast New Guinea. [Ramsay.) 
