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purplish-brown and lilac markings, intermingled with others of a 
deep bluish-grey, the latter colour predominating and appearing 
as if beneath the surface of the shell ; towards the larger end 
these markings become thicker and form an irregular shaped zone. 
Length (A) 0-73 x 0-61 inch ; (B) 0-7 x 0-6 inch; (C) 0-72 x 0-61 
inch; (D; 0'72 x 0'6 inch. Taken at Childers, South Gippsland, 
November 23rd, 1884. 
Hah. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 
Rivers Districts, Now South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 
Tasmania. ( Ramsay.) 
PETRCECA GOODENOVII, Vigors and Horsjield. 
Rod-capped Robin. 
Gould, llandb. Bds. Aunt., Vol. i., sp. 166, p. 280. 
The nest of the Red-capped Robin is one of the most beautiful 
belonging to our Australian birds, it is usually placed on a thick 
branch or upright fork of a Casuarina, near the ground ; and is 
very difficult of detection as it is made to assimilate so closely to 
its surroundings, and like the nests of the Sillellai it is only by 
the actions of the birds that its whereabouts is betrayed; it is 
composed of tine strips of bark, neatly held together with fragments 
of wool, the inside being lined with cow hair, opossum fur, and a few 
feathers ; the edge of the nest is thick and rounded, and the whole 
outer surface is beautifully ornamented with a mouse eared lichen 
which when new gives it a very pretty appearance; external 
diameter two inches and three-quarters, depth one inch and three- 
quarters, run five-eighths of an inch in thickness; internal 
diameter one inch and a-half, depth one inch. The eggs are four 
in number, ground colour when fresh greyish-green, thickly 
covered all over the surface with light purplish-brown markings, 
but particularly towards the centre where they become larger and 
