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MUSCICAPIDJE. 
confluent, and intermingling with a few spots of lilac form an 
irregular zone. 
A set of four token at Tyndarie by Mr. James Ramsay in 1879, 
measure as follows : — length (A) 0 - G5 x 0'5 inch ; (B) 0‘63 x 0'5 
inch; (C) OG2 x 0-48 inch; (D) 0-G3 x 0-5 inch. 
This bird breeds during August and the two following months. 
Hah. Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence River Districts, 
Now South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 
West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay ) 
PETRCECA PHCENICEA, Gould. 
Flame-breasted Robin. 
Gould, llandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 1G7, p. 282. 
For the nest and several sets of eggs of this bird I am indebted 
to Mr. Joseph Hill of Pine Rise, Kewell, Victoria, who procured 
them together with the birds on the borders of the Malice Scrub, 
in the Wimmera District, during September 1884. The nest is 
similar to that of P. leggii, and the eggs in every instance were 
three in number for a sitting. The ground colour of the eggs is 
greenish-white, freckled and spotted with yellowish and chestnut- 
brown markings ; in two specimens, A and B, towards the larger 
end is a well defined zone of delicate lilac spots ; in the other 
specimen C, the spots are uniformly distributed over the whole 
surface. Length (A) 0'73 x 0‘58 inch; (B) 0'74 x 0 - o< inch; 
(C) 072 x 056 inch. 
The breeding season commences in August and lasts during 
the three following months. 
Hab. New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, and 
Tasmania (Ramsay.) 
