EOPSALTRIA. 
Ill 
0'84 x 062 inch.” ( Ramsay , P.L.S., E.S.W., Vol. i., 2nd Series, 
p. 1145. 
Hob. West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
EOPSALTRIA NANA, Ramsay. 
P.L.S. of N.S.W., Vol. ii., p. 372. 
“ I first noticed this species on the Lower Herbert, and after¬ 
wards obtained it in the dense scrubs at Dalrymple’s Gap, about 
fourteen miles from Cardwell; but it was not until Mr. Broadbent 
had forwarded to me adult specimens, shot from the nest, that I 
became aware of its being a distinct species ; and although very 
closely allied to Eiipsaltria capito (Gould) of our New South 
Wales brushes it may at once be distinguished by the rufous tint 
on the lores and round the eye. 
In habits E. nana resembles all others of the genus, building a 
similar nest and laying eggs closely resembling those of E. capito 
but smaller. The nest is placed in the fork of a vine or horizontal 
bough of a tree, and is a remarkably neat structure; one before 
me is perfectly round, open above, about 1 -8 inch inside diameter, 
2"8 inches outside; depth inside 1*4 inch; to bottom of nest 
outside l'G inch to 2'5 inches ; it is built in the angle formed by 
a leaf of a species of Calamus and the upright cane, and supported 
by the branching leaflets, narrow strips of withered palm leaves 
&c., and ornamented on the outside with green mosses and scales 
of the bark of moss-grown scrub trees. 
The eggs are two or three in number, of a dull greenish-yellow, 
greenish-buff, or greenish grey-brown, blotched and spotted with 
yellowish-umber, buff, and reddish-brown, with freckles of a slaty- 
grey tint; the larger spots and blotches forming a zone at the 
thicker end. Length 0 - 85 inch ; breadth 0'5G inch. ( Ramsay , 
P.L.S., E.S. W., Vol. ii., p. 474.) 
Hab. Rockingham Bay. (Ramsay.) 
