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MUSOICAPID*. 
GERYGONE FLAVIDA, Ramsay. 
Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. ii., p. 53. 
“ This species is common among the dense belts of mangroves 
near Cardwell; we found several of its nests containing eggs and 
young birds on February 26th 1874, when my young friend 
Master J. Sheridan, an enthusiastic young naturalist, kindly 
waded nearly up to his knees in black mud to secure them for me, 
one nest contained the egg of a Cuckoo, exactly the same as that 
of C. playosus, but smaller than any eggs of that bird I have 
hitherto met with ; it is probably the egg of C. minutillus. The 
nest is a somewhat bulky structure, and resembles closely a lump 
of debris left by the floods hanging to the end of some leafy twig, 
it is composed of shreds of bark, dried water-weeds, and withered 
grasses, selected, I have no doubt, from the debris of the floods, 
plentiful on every side. It is oval oblong, with a small side 
entrance, and suspended by the top to the end of some hanging 
branch, often a considerable distance from the shore. The eggs 
are white, with a few dots of reddish-brown at the larger end ; 
some are altogether white without any markings.” Length (A) 
07 x 0-51 inch. ( Ramsay, P.Z.S., 1875, p. 587.) 
Ilab. Rockingham Bay. {Ramsay.) 
Genus SMICRORNIS, Gould. 
SMICRORNIS BREVIROSTR1S, Gould. 
Short-billed Smierornis. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 161, p. 273. 
This little bird is distributed over the greater part of the 
Eastern and Southern portions of Australia. In the belts of 
Melaleuca at the mouth of the river Yarra, near Melbourne, I 
have often found the nests of this species. A nest now before me 
taken from the Australian Museum Collection, is of a swollen 
