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shrubs, but always placed among the outside twigs. We have 
taken nests from a species of Acacia overhanging the creeks and 
rivers. Sometimes they are wholly composed of fine strips of 
stringy-bark, which when new give them a reddish-brown appearance. 
At other times they are composed of dry grass, a great quantity 
of white cobweb being used in all cases. The total length of the 
nest of A. nana is three inches by two inches and a-lialf in breadth, 
being somewhat narrower at the bottom. The eggs are three in 
number, from 0-6 to 0-7 inch in length, and 04 inch in breadth, 
strongly blotched, dotted, or freckled with dark dull reddish-brown 
inclining to chocolate in some, to red in others, and having a few 
dots of dull lilac towards the larger end. In sonie specimens the 
markings form a zone on the thick end, in others they are equally 
dispersed over the whole surface and take the form of irregular 
blotches. The birds may be found breeding in September and 
the three following months, and are frequently the foster parents 
of C. plagosus and C. basalis.” (Ramsay , P.Z.S., I860, p. 573.) 
A set in the Australian Museum Collection give the following 
dimensions. Length (A) 0-63 x <HG inch ; (B) OG7 x 0-47 inch ; 
(C) 0-63 x 0-45 inch. 
Hab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 
(Hammy.) 
ACANTHIZA LINEATA, Gould, 
Lineated Acanthiza. 
Gould, Handbk. Ms. Just., VoL i., sp. 227, p. 372. 
“The nest of the Lineated Acanthiza is one of the most beautiful 
of those of our Australian birds. It is a neat, oval, compact, and 
remarkably strong structure, in length four inches and a-lialf to 
five inches by three inches through, composed of fine shreds of 
stringy bark closely interwoven, and frequently ornamented with 
