ACANTHIZA. 
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feathers and similar soft substances. Eggs three to four in 
number for a sitting, white, spotted and freckled with red and 
reddish-brown markings. Length (A) 0-7 x 0 52 inch ; (13) 0-67 
x 0 - 51 inch ; (C) 0‘(5S xO-53 inch. Taken near Hobart, September 
1885. 
This bird commences to breed in August and continues the 
four following months. 
Ilab. Tasmania. {Ramsay.) 
ACANTHIZA UROPYGIALIS, Gould. 
Chestnut-rumped Acanthiza. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 222, p. 367. 
For the eggs of this species I am indebted to Mr. K. H. 
Bennett, who procured them at Mossgiel on the 15th of October 
1886. The nest, he informs me was similar to that of Acanthiza 
pyrrhopygia , and was packed between the upright stems of a thickly 
foliaged tree about five feet from the ground. Eggs three in 
number for a sitting, of a delicate fleshy-white minutely freckled 
all overwith light reddish-brown markings, but particularly towards 
the larger end where they form an ill defined zone. Length (A) 
065 x 0 5 inch; (B) 0-65 x 0-48 inch; (C) 0-66 x 0-48 inch. 
(North, P.L.S., N.S.W., Y ol. ii., 2nd Series, p. 407.) 
Ilab. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. 
(Ramsay.) 
ACANTHIZA APICALIS, Gould. 
Western Acanthiza. 
Goidd, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 223, p. 368. 
This species which is a native of Western Australia is to be 
met with in all wooded situations. It breeds in September and 
October. The nest which is usually placed in a thick foliaged 
bush or in a clump of the Ti-tree is of a domed form with an 
