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mouse-car lichen, and hanging from the sides are long chips of 
bark, some of them four inches or more in length and half an inch 
wide, fastened one above the other with cobweb, the lowest of 
them reaching several inches below the bottom of the nest. The 
eggs, which are two or three in number, are of an apple-green, or 
light greenish-blue colour, spotted, blotched, or minutely dotted 
with deep brownish-red, yellowish-brown, and obsolete spots of faint 
lilac. Some are thickly speckled all over so as almost to hide the 
ground colour, and in these the yellowish-brown markings 
predominate ; others are distinctly spotted, or have a zone of 
markings. They are in length ten and a-half to eleven lines by 
seven to seven and a-half in breadth, and are usually found in 
September and the three following months.” ( Ramsay, Proc. Phil. 
Soc., Sydney, 1865, p. 326, pi. i., figs. 7 and 8.) 
A set of the eggs of this species taken at Dobroyde in 1866 
measure as follows : — length (A) 0'82 x 0'63 inch ; (B) 0'8 x O'59 
inch ; (C) 0'81 x0-61 inch. 
A set taken in South Gippsland give the following dimensions: 
length (A) 0-84 x 0'65 inch ; (B) 0'81 x 0-62 inch ; (C) 0-82 x 
0'63 inch. 
ILab. Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, 
New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. {Ramsay.) 
EOPSALTRIA CAPITO, Gould. 
Large-beaded Robin. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 178, p. 297. 
The localities which this bird frequents are the rich brushes 
that clothe the sides of the rivers on the eastern coast of Australia, 
extending from Rockingham Bay in the north to the Clarence 
River in the south. A nest of this species now before me taken 
from the low fork of a tree near Ballina, on the Richmond River, 
is a deep cup-shaped structure composed of portions of the dead 
leaves of the “lawyer-vine” (Calamus australis), held together 
