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MUSCICAPIDiE. 
with light chestnut and purplish-brown ; eight lines and a-half 
long by six lines and a-half broad.” (Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., 
Yol. i., p. 276.) 
I lab. Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania. (Ramsay.) 
PETRCECA LEGGII, Sharpe. 
(P. multicolor, Vigors and Horsfield.) 
Scarlet-breasted Robin. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 165, p. 279. 
This bird is universally dispersed throughout Queensland, New 
South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. It arrives 
in Victoria about the latter end of June, and commences to breed 
early in September and continues to the end of December. 
On the partially cleared land in the dense forests of South 
Gippsland I have often found the nest of this species by seeing the 
bird fly into one of the huge blackened hollow trunks of the 
Eucalyptus that has been destroyed by tire ; the nest is placed 
about six or seven feet from the ground on a projecting piece of 
roughened and charred wood, it is composed of strips of bark, 
grasses, and mosses, securely held together with cobweb, and lined 
witli hair, fur, feathers ifce., and sometimes with the soft downy 
fibre of the inner bark of the tree-fern (Dicksonia anlarctica); it 
is also placed on the horizontal branch, or bole of a tree after the 
manner of the Artamus family. Eggs three or four in number 
for a sitting. 
Var. A. Ground colour buffy-white thickly freckled and spotted 
all over the surface of the shell with purplish-brown, wood-brown, 
and bluish-grey markings. Length (A) 0‘72 x 0'6 inch ; (B) 0'/ 4 
x 0-91 inch; (C) 072 x 062 inch. Taken by Dr. Ramsay on 
Ash Island, October 1860. 
Var. B. Ground colour, when just taken greenish-white, fading 
to a dull white after being emptied of their contents and kept for 
some time, minutely freckled and spotted with pale umber, 
