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PACHYCEPHALIA. 
Wilcannia in New Soutli Wales, in October 1882, and later on 
in the same year at Adavale, Queensland. 
In both instances the nests were built in the Polygonum bushes 
and were cup-shaped structures composed of thin twigs, lined with 
grasses. Eggs two in number for a sitting; those taken at 
Wilcannia are elongate in form, of a pale blue ground colour, 
minutely spotted and blotched with irregular shaped black 
markings ; length (A) 1-03 x O'GS inch ; (B) 0-97 x 0-67 inch. 
The specimens taken at Adavale, Queensland, are more rounded 
in form, of a deep blue ground colour, with a few minute dots and 
nearly round spots of black ; closely resembling those of the Song 
Thrush (Turdus musicus), from which they differ only in size ; 
length (A) 093 x 0-7 inch ; (B) 093 x 0-71 inch. 
An egg of this species in the Dobroyde Collection, taken by 
one of Mitchell’s party during his expedition to Central Australia 
in 1835, is similar in size and markings to the last described ; 
another pair taken by Mr. James Ramsay at Tyndarie in 187G, 
is of a delicate blue ground colour minutely spotted and blotched 
with irregular shaped purplish-brown markings. 
The breeding season of this species commences in September, 
and lasts the two following months. 
Hab. Gulf of Carpentaria, New Sonth Wales, Interior, Victoria 
and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus PSOPHODES, Vigors and Horsjield. 
PSOPHODES CREPITANS, Vigors and Horsjield. 
Coach-whip-bird. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 182, p. 312. 
This bird is found in the dense thickets and scrubs that clothe 
the sides of mountain ranges, rivers, and creeks. I found it very 
plentiful in the Strzclecki Ranges in South Gippsland, Victoria, 
making the fern gullies and musk scrubs echo with its peculiar 
