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of grasses and the stalks of various herbs slightly interwoven and 
fastened together by spiders webs, tire., and is lined with finer grasses 
tire.; inside diameter four inches, the depth 1-4, the height of the 
rim above the branch on which it is placed is one inch. The eggs 
are three in number, oblong in form, the shell of a delicate thin 
texture, the ground colour pale asparagus green with a dull 
brownish patch of confluent markings at the thicker end, or with 
freckles of the same tint thinly distributed over the surface, and 
a few black irregular markings at the thick end. Length (A) 
1-3x0-87; (B) 1-35 x 0-95; (0) 1-33 x0-92; (D) 1-3x0-87; 
(E) l - 35 x 0-88.” (Ramsay , P.L.S., A..S'. IT., Vol. vii., p. 47.) 
J/ab, Wide Bay District, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 
and South Australia, W. and S.W. Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus LALAGE, Boie. 
LALAGE LEUCOMELvENA, Vigors and Horafield. 
Black and "White Lalage. 
Gould, lTandbh. Bds. Atist., Vol. i., sp. Ill, p. 203. 
Respecting the nidification of this species, Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald 
writes as follows : — 
“ A nest of this species, taken at Ballina near the mouth of the 
Richmond River, on November 4th, 1887, is composed of the 
wiry and pliant stems of herbs and grasses entwined and matted 
together with cobweb, and a few pieces of lichen felted together, 
making the outside resemble the branch, in a fork of which it is 
placed ; the nest is about the size of that of /.. tricolor, being 
comparatively small for the size of the bird ; the one at present 
under consideration, was placed between a fork in a small branch 
of a Ti-tree (Mnlaleuca sp.); it is a small and shallow structure, 
being only 2-1 inches outside diameter by 1-35 inches inside, and 
without any special lining. It contained but one egg, which I 
believe is all that is laid for a sitting, for on shooting and dissecting 
the female no other egg was found in any degree of maturity. 
