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thickly covered with dead leaves, about live or six miles inland 
from Cape York, observed a nest of this species placed on the 
earth at the foot of a small tree ; its internal diameter was four 
inches and a-half; it was outwardly composed of small sticks, with 
liner ones inside, and lined with grass-like fibres, and was moreover 
surrounded with dead leaves heaped up to a level with its upper 
surface; it contained two eggs an inch lor. ; by seven-tenths of an 
inch broad, of a regular oval shape, and of a very light stone-grey 
thickly covered with small umber blotches, which increased in size 
and were more thickly placed at the larger end : they were placed 
side by side, with the large end of one opposite the small end of 
the other.” (Gould, llandbk. lid*. Aunt., Vol. i., p. 291.) 
Sab. Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York. (Ramsay.) 
Genus EOPSALTRIA, Gould. 
EOPSALTRIA AUSTRALIS, Latham. 
Yellow-breasted Robin. 
Gould, llandbk., lids. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 175, p. 293. 
“ The nest of this species much resembles in form those of the 
true Australian Robins of the genus Petrosca, to which the birds 
also closely assimilate in their movements and habits, with the 
exception that the Eopsaltria: are lovers of the more unfrequented 
parts of the bush, while nearly all the members of the genus 
Pelrcoca prefer the open and half cleared patches of land. The 
nests of the Yellow-breasted Robin are either placed in the upright 
fork of some small tree, or built upon some horizontal bough, often 
within two or three feet of the ground. It is a beautifully round 
and cup-shaped structure, three inches high by two inches across 
and one inch and a-half deep, composed of strips of bark, and lined 
most frequently, with the narrow thread-like leaves of the native 
oak (Casuarina) and a few dry leaves of the Eucalypti. The 
edges and parts of the outside are studded with small pieces of the 
