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kinds, among which may bo distinguished those of the Lyre-bird, 
Cat bird, and some of the PycnoptUn i itself. In form it is some¬ 
what dome shaped, placed on its side and with a large, rough, ill- 
detined opening, which was probably narrowed by the adjacent 
debris among which it was. placed. The eggs, two in number for 
a sitting, are in tint of a dark rich purplish-brown, like those of 
Sericornis citreoyularix, with an indistinct zone at the larger end 
of a blackish tint, and a few ill-defined obsolete spots of the same 
on the oilier parts ; they arc smaller and more dot-like nearer the 
thin end, where the ground colour is slightly lighter in tint; they 
measure as follows -(A) 1 inch x 075 inch ; (B) 0 95 x 0-75 
inch. They arc decidedly Swollen and much shorter in proportion 
but otherwise very like the dark variety of the eggs of Sericornis 
citreogularis. Mr. A. J. North, who took a nest of this species 
so far back as October 1878, at Childers, in South Gippsland, 
and exhibited the first specimens I had seen, at the International 
Exhibition held in Melbourne 1880, informs me that this species 
was very plentiful in that district up to 1881, but the numerous 
clearings made by the “ selectors ” have since driven the birds to 
other parts. The egg he states shows no dillerence from those 
here described, except that some are slightly longer, and not so 
swollen as others.” (Hammy, P L.S., MS.IF., 2nd Series, Vol. 
i., p. 1139.) 
A set taken at South Gippsland measures, length (A) 0-97 x 0-76 
inch ; (B) 0-98 x 0-75 inch. 
TInl. New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 
( Ramsay .) 
Genus SERICORNIS, Go ild. 
SERICORNIS CITREOGULABIS, Gould. 
Yellow-throated. Sericornis. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 213, p. 354. 
Ihis species was found breeding plentifully in the Richmond 
River district in 18GG by Dr. Ramsay, and both nest and eggs 
