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pear-shaped form and is constructed of mosses, grasses, spiders’ 
cocoons ifcc., all securely woven together, with an entrance near the 
top, and lined inside with feathers and a few dried llowers, it is 
attached to the line drooping leafy twigs of a Eucalyptus, and is 
four and a-half inches in length, by two inches and a-quarter in 
breadth at the thickest part; aperture one inch long, by six-eighths 
of an inch in width. 
Eggs three in number for a sitting, a set taken at the mouth of 
the river Yarra in September 1879, are of a creamy-brown ground 
colour, minutely freckled at the larger end with bully-brown ; 
length (A) 0-57 x 0-44 inch; (B) 0-57 x 0-4G; (C) 0-58 x 0-45 
inch. A set taken at Macquarie Eields, in October 1860, are of 
a dull buffy-white, minutely freckled all over with slaty-brown 
markings, but particularly towards the larger end where they 
become confluent, and form a well defined zone; length (A) 0'62 
x 0-43 inch ; (B) 0-63 x 0-43 inch; (C) 0-63 x 0-44 inch. The 
latter is the most usual variety found. 
This species commences to breed in September and continues 
during the two following months. 
JTab. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 
Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and 
South Australia. ( Ramsay.) 
Genus ERYTHRODRYAS, Gould. 
ERYTIIRODRYAS RIIODINOGASTER, Drapiez. 
(E. rliodinogaster, Gould.) 
Pink-breasted Wood Robin. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Amt., Vol. i., sp. 163, p. 276. 
“ The nest of this species is formed of narrow strips of soft bark, 
soft fibres of decaying wood, and fine roots matted and woven 
together with vegetable fibres, and old black nests of spiders. The 
eggs are three in number, of a greenish-white, thickly sprinkled 
