ACANTHIZA. 
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of King George’s Sound in the former colony, where Mr. Masters 
succeeded in obtaining a number of specimens during 1868, 
likewise the nest and eggs. A nest of this species now before me 
taken from the Australian Museum Collection, is a dome-shaped 
structure composed of the dried wiry stems of a Drosera,' and the 
flowering portions of the Banksia cones, spiders’ webs, &c., all 
matted up together, and lined inside with the white downy seeds of 
some composite plant. It measures exteriorly four inches and a 
quarter in height, by three inches in width, the aperture which is 
oval and near the top being one inch high by one incli and a-quarter 
in width. The nest is firmly packed in the upright branches of 
a Banksia, and "was placed about five feet from the ground; it 
contained two eggs of a fleshy-white ground colour, freckled all 
over with irregular shaped markings of reddish-brown, particularly 
towards the larger end, where they form a well defined zone. 
Length (A) 0*7 x 0-52 inch; (B) 0-69 x 0-52 inch. (North, P.L.S., 
N.S.W., Vol. ii., 2nd Series p. 406.) 
Nab. Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West 
Australia. (Ramsay.) 
ACANTHIZA NANA, Vigors and Horsjicld. 
Little Acanthiza. 
Gould, Ilandbk, Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 226, p. 371. 
“The nest of this species is not by any means as neat a 
structure as that of A. lineata, it is moreover placed in situations 
quite different. It is of an oblong form and placed among the 
topmost twigs of some bushy scrub, composed of thin shreds of 
stringy-bark and grasses, and often beautifully decorated with 
green mosses and lichens, and lined with native cotton-tree down, 
feathers, or fine grasses. The entrance, which is about one inch 
and a-half from the top, having its edges but roughly finished off' 
and not covered by any hood, is one inch in width. The Yellow 
Acanthiza shows a decided preference for the tops of the native 
I’i-trees, but its nest may also be found in various other trees and 
