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the nest is not always placed in out of the way situations, one 
being found only a few feet from a well-frequented track, and 
another within a stone’s-throw of the house. The most successful 
collector I know of, Mr. E. Pakenham, obtained no less than six 
eggs of this species in one day. The breeding season of this 
species commences in the month of May and continues the three 
following months. 
“ Menura victories, Var. A. Ground colour olive-brown, of a 
rather light tint, with spots of blackish-brown and purple-brown, 
some confluent, others solitary, rather crowded on the top of the 
thicker end ; there are also a few obsolete spots of a lilac tint; 
length 2-37 x 1-65 inch. Var. B. Ground colour purplish-stone 
colour or dark brownish-purple, with obsolete spots and irregular 
markings of blackish, crowded towards the thick end, and forming 
a dark patch at the top where they overlap, some of the spots on 
the body of the egg are elongate and interspersed among freckles 
of the same blackish tint; length 2'41 x 1 • 7 3 inch.” ( Ramsay , 
P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. vii., p. 50.) 
Hub. Victoria. ( Ramsaj/.) 
Family TIMELIIDiE. 
Sub-Family TIMELIINJE. 
Genus AMYTIS, Lesson. 
AMYTIS STRIATUS, Gould. 
Striated Wren. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 199, p. 335. 
This bird is an inhabitant of the large open grass plains and 
scrubby portions of the back country of New South Wales, and 
the interior of Australia. A nest of this bird in the Australian 
Museum Collection, taken from a tussock of “ porcupine grass ’ 
