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note terminating like the cracking of a stockman’s whip, 
although from its restless habits, while traversing the thick 
undergrowth, it is always a difficult specimen to procure. A nest 
of this species in the Australian Museum Collection, presented by 
Dr. Hurst, and taken by that gentleman in August 1S8G, at 
Newington, on the banks of the Parramatta River, is an open, 
shallow structure, composed of long twigs bent round, and lined 
inside with the leaves of the Catsuarina; it measures externally 
live and a-half inches in diameter, depth two and a-half inches ; 
internal diameter three inches, depth one inch and a-half. The 
nest was placed near a fallen log in a tangled mass of vines 
(Dioscorea) about two feet from the ground. Eggs two in number 
for a sitting, of a bluish-white ground colour, spotted and 
blotched all over with irregular shaped black markings. Length 
(A) 1‘07 x 0 77 inch ; (B) l - 06 x 0'78 inch. Taken by Dr. Ilui-st. 
Two eggs taken by Dr. Ramsay at Lismore in the Richmond 
River District, during November 1869, are of a pale bluish- 
white ground colour-, minutely spotted and boldly marked all over 
with curiously shaped dashes of black, resembling crescents, 
figures, letters <fcc., while on the larger end are short wavy linear 
markings of dark lilac interlacing one another, which together 
with the spots and dashes of black form a nearly perfect zone. 
Length (A) 1'07 x 0-82 inch ; (B) 1-04 x 0-84 inch. 
Specimens in my own collection, have the markings nearly 
round, but the above described are the most usual varieties found. 
Nests containing eggs of this species have been found as early 
as July, and as late as November. 
Dr. Hurst and myself were successful in obtaining the eggs of 
this species at Newington on the 30th of July 1887, also two new 
nests a week after in the same locality, one of the latter being 
prettily esconced in the centre of a Zamia spiralis. 
Hub. Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence 
River Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 
(Ramsay.) 
