GUAUCALUS. 
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Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia, "West and South-West Australia, South Coast New 
Guinea. (Ramsay.) 
GRAUCALUS MENTAL IS, Vigors and Horsfield , 
Varied Graucalus. 
Gould, JTandbk. lids. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 105, p. 195. 
The nest and eggs of this species is somewhat similar to that of 
G. melanops. A set of three eggs taken by Dr. Ramsay at Dobroyde 
on the 31st of October 18G4, are of a dull asparagus green, 
uniformly spotted and blotched with pale red markings, and a few 
obsolete spots of bluish-grey, appearing as if beneath the surface 
of the shell. Length (A) U27 x 0'87 inch ; (B) 1 -25 x 0-86 inch ; 
(C) 1-26 x 0'86 inch. 
Another set, elongate in form, are of a dull olive-brown, thickly 
freckled and spotted all over with dark reddish-brown markings. 
Length (A) L3 x 0-83 inch ; (B) D3 x 0-85 inch ; (C) 1-27 x 0-86 
inch. 
This species breeds during September and the three following 
months. 
Hob. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
GRAUCALUS PARVIROSTRIS, Gould. 
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Short-billed Graucalus. 
Gould, Handbk. /ids. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 104, p. 194. 
This is the Tasmanian form of the ti. melanops of the Australian 
Continent, and its nidification and the number and colour of its 
eggs is precisely similar. A set of two, taken near Hobart in 
November 1885, are of a dull olive-green, thickly freckled, spotted, 
