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with a few wiry grass stems, the whole exterior being covered 
with mosses, and ornamented in a few places with largo pieces of 
lichens. Exterior diameter two and three-quarters of an inch by 
two inches and a-half in depth. Eggs two in number for a sitting, 
oval in form slightly tapering at one end, of a very faint dull 
greenish-white, covered with indistinct markings of yellowish and 
reddish-brown, which at the larger end becomes more boldly 
defined, where, intermingled with superimposed blotches of wood- 
brown, they form an irregularly shaped zone. Length 082 x OG 
inch. The eggs of this bird are entirely devoid of the rich apple- 
green colour of those of the southern representative E. australis. 
From Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald’s Collection. (North, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Yol. ii., Second Series, p. 146, 1888.) 
Hah. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts. (Ramsay.) 
EOPSALTRIA GULARIS, Quay et Gaimard. 
Grey-breasted Robin. 
Gould, HandhJc. Eds. Amt., Yol. i., sp. 176, p. 294. 
A nest of this species taken by Mr. George Masters at King 
George’s Sound, on the 24th of September 1868, and now in the 
Australian Museum Collection, is a deep cup-shaped structure, 
composed entirely of strips of bark held together with a very fine 
white fibre resembling cobwebs ; at the bottom of the nest are a 
few dried Eucalyptus leaves ; on the outside of the nest are long 
strips of bark attached all round, some pieces measuring over three 
and a-half inches in length and three-eighths of an inch in width ; 
outside measurement of nest three inches, depth two inches, 
internal diameter two inches and a-half, depth one inch and a-half. 
“ Eggs two or three for a sitting; the ground colour is of a pale 
apple-green, with a zone of dots and spots round the larger end of 
a light reddish-brown, they approach in tint faded eggs of E. nana, 
Ramsay, but are much larger.” Length (A) 0-83 x 0-6 inch ; (B) 
