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concealed among the debris and grass which usually accumulates 
in such places. The eggs are three in number, the ground colour 
almost white, the whole surface thickly freckled with dots of 
blackish-brown and reddish-brown, with a few of a pale lilac tint 
here and there, some of the dots very minute, others larger and 
roundish in shape ; in one specimen they form a thick crowded 
patch on the thicker end, whore some are con/luent; the egg 
before me is oval, rather swollen, and the shell very thin ; length 
T02 x 0 - 75 inch, they breed during September to December. 
From Mr. Ralph Hargrave's Coll. (Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S. Il r ., 
Yol. viL, p. 50.) 
Huh. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 
( Ramsay .) 
SPHENURA LONGIROSTRIS, Gould. 
Long-billed Bristle Bird. 
Gould, Idandblc. lids. Aust, Yol. i., sp. 203, p. 343. 
A nest of this species in the Australian Museum Collection, 
taken by Mr. George Masters at King George’s Sound, Western 
Australia, in September 1868, is oval in form with a large entrance 
at the side, and is composed entirely of long dried hollow grass- 
stalks, with a little grass of a finer description placed inside at 
the bottom of the nest; it measures six inches in length, five inches 
in width, and four inches in height, and was placed amongst some 
dried vegetation close to the ground. Eggs two in number for a 
sitting, of a dull white ground fnlour minutely dotted, spotted, 
and freckled all over witli wood-brown and purplish-brown 
markings, but particularly towards the larger end, where 
intermingled with clouded blotches of dark lilac, appearing as if 
beneath the surface of the shell, they become confluent and form an 
irregular zone ; length (A) 09 x 072 inch ; (B) 0"91 x 073 inch. 
Ilah. West and South-west Australia. {Ramsay.) 
