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MUSCICAPID^E. 
Collection taken by Dr. Ramsay on the lGth September I860, are 
heavily blotched with red, forming a zone on the thicker end, 
another has the spots smaller and sprinkled over the whole surface. 
Length (A) 0‘G4 x 0-48 inch ; (B) 0-65 x 047 inch. 
A set taken by Mr. James Ramsay at Tyndarie, are not so 
heavily blotched as the former, and have nearly all the markings 
confined to the larger end. Length (A) 0-62 x 0-5 inch ; (B) 066 
x 0-47 inch ; (C) 065 x 0-47 inch. 
They breed from the beginning of September until the end of 
December, during which time two or more broods are reared. 
Hah. Gulf of Carpentaria, Rockingham Bay, Dawson River, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
MALURUS MELANOTUS, Gould. 
Black-backed Superb Warbler. 
Gould, Ilandblc. lids. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 187, p. 322. 
Mr. K. H. Bennett procured several nests and eggs of this species 
from the neighbourhood of Ivanhoe and Mossgiel, in the interior 
of New South Wales, during the months of October and November 
1885 and 1886. The nest is of the usual form, composed 
throughout of strips of bark, grasses, and wool, with a few feathers 
inside, rather loosely interwoven, being five inches in length by 
three in breadth, and placed in a low bush. 
“ Eggs like those of JA cyaneus, from which they are not to be 
distinguished; white, with rich red dots, spots, and in some 
blotches, scattered over the surface, crowded on one end, or forming 
a broken zone near the thicker end ; the size of an average 
specimen is—long axis 063 inch; short axis 048 inch ; of a 
heavily blotched specimen 0 - G5 x 045 inch.” Dobr. Mus. Coll. 
(Ramsay, P.L.S., JV.S.W., 2nd Scries, Vol. i., p. 1145.) 
I lab. Interior, South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
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