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edges of the scrubs. Upon every occasion that we have discovered 
its nest it has been placed within a few inches of the ground. 
One I have at present before me is suspended to the underside of 
a fern (Pter is aquilina), it is a closely interwoven dome-shaped 
structure, in form closely resembling that of A. /ineata, but differs 
from it in the outside being made as rough as possible with coarse 
pieces of strong bark and leaves of grasses, which hang down and 
stick out from it in various directions; it is composed chiefly of 
stringy-bark and the white paper-like bark of the Ti-tree, lined 
with cotton-tree down and feathers ; length four inches by three 
inches in breadth. The eggs three in number have a pure white 
ground, zoned at the larger end with freckles of light brown (in 
tint duller than those of A. lineata), which in some specimens are 
also distributed over the rest of the surface. Its note is much 
louder and more varied than that of any other species. Besides 
being the foster parent of Chalcites baaalis, and C. playosus, this 
species has frequently the pleasure of rearing the young of Cuculus 
jlabelliformis, three nests out of four lately found of this Acanthiza 
having contained an egg of the C. jlabelliformis P (Ramsay, P.Z. 
S., I860, p. 574.) 
The set of eggs described above measure as follows :—length 
(A) 065 x 0-49 inch ; (B) 0 66 x 0-49 inch; (C) 064 x 0'46 inch. 
I found these birds building in the low ferns (Pteris aquilina) 
at Narrabeen, New South Wales, on the 20th of June, 1888. 
Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 
(Ramsay ) 
ACANTHIZA DIEMENENSIS, Gould. 
Tasmanian Acanthiza. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, A 7 ol. i., sp., 221, p. 365. 
This species is strictly confined to Tasmania, through the 
greater part of which it is freely dispersed. The nest is a dome¬ 
shaped structure, similar to those of the Australian species, and 
is composed of roots, grasses, spiders’ cocoons &c., and lined with 
