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TIIIELIINJE. 
rootlets and debris, and warmly lined with feathers. It is usually 
placed near the ground at the bottom of a scrubby bush, or under 
the shelter of a tuft of grass. Eggs three in number for a sitting. 
A set taken by Dr. Ramsay on Ash Island in 1861, are of a faint 
purplish ground colour, with a well defined zone of dark purplish- 
brown on the larger end. Length (A) 0'78 x 0'G2 inch ; (B) 08 
x 0-6 inch ; (C) 076 x 06 inch. 
Another set taken at Macquarie Fields in 1869, are much 
lighter iii tint, and have the markings more evenly distributed 
over the surface of the shell ; length (A) 0 - 8 x OO inch ; (B) 0'78 
x 0 - 6 inch. 
1Tab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia. (Ramsay.) 
SERICORNIS MAGNIROSTRIS, Gould. 
Large-billed Sericornis. 
Gould, Handbk. Rds. Ans'., Vol. i., sp. 219, p. 362. 
This species is common in the Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
districts. The nest is similar to that of S. citreoyularis and placed 
in like situations, often being slung in the “ Lawyer vines ” 
Calamus australis, which on account of their long tendrils with 
saw-like edges affords them ample protection. The eggs are three 
in number, very thin shelled, the ground colour being of a faint 
purplish-white, minutely flecked and marked with dark brown, 
in some instances all over, in others confined to the larger end 
where they form a well defined zone. A set of three taken by 
Dr. Ramsay on the 14th November 1858, measure as follows: — 
length (A) 0*77 x 0-58 inch ; (B) 0-77 x 0T>7 inch ; (C) 0-77 x 
0'5S inch. 
The breeding season commences in August and lasts during the 
four following months. 
