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for a sitting, fleshy-white, sprinkled all over with pale reddish- 
brown markings, in one specimen (A.) forming a coalesced patcli 
on one end. Length (A) 0-68 x 0-5 inch ; (B) 0-68 x 0‘5 inch ; 
(C) 0-66 x 0-51 inch; (D) 0-67 x 0-48 inch. (Forth, P.L.S., 
F.S. TV, Vol. ii., 2nd Series, p. 406.) 
I lab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River. (Ramsay.) 
MALURUS GOULDIT, Sharpe. 
(M. longicaudus, Gould.) 
Long-tailed Superb Warbler. 
Gould, HandbTc. Bds. Aust, Vol.i., sp. 186, p. 320. 
The nest of this species is similarly constructed to that of M. 
Cjjaneus, but rather larger, and is built in some low bush or tuft 
of long grass. Eggs usually five for a sitting, and the largest of 
all the genus Malurus; they are fleshy-white with blotches and spots 
of rich rod scattered all over the surface, but particularly towards 
the larger end, where in most instances they form a zone. A set 
taken near Hobart, Tasmania, last year measures:— (A) 0-75 x 0-55 
inch; (B) 07 x 0-52 inch ; (C) 0-72 x 054 inch ; 
They breed during August and the four following months. 
Hah. Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania. {Ramsay.) 
MALURUS LAMBERT!, Vigors and Ilorsfield. 
Lambert’s Superb Warbler. 
Gould, HandbJc. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 191, p. 327. 
The nest of this species is similar to others of the genus. It is 
still to be found breeding in the neighbour]mod of Sydney. The 
eggs of this species cannot be distinguished from those of M. 
cyaneus, or many others of the genus, two in the Dobroyde 
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