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Hob. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania) 
West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus OEIGMA, Gould. 
ORIGMA RUBRIOATA, Latham. 
Rock Warbler. 
Gould, Ifandbk. Bds. Amt., Vol. i., sp. 236, p. 385. 
“This bird may always be found in the neighbourhood of gullies 
and ravines, especially where there is running water. It seems 
to give preference to the rocky sides of steep gullies, where it may 
bo seen running over the rocks uttering its shrill cry, entering 
into the crevices under the low shelving rocks, and reappearing 
again many yards in advance. It is a very pleasing and lively 
little bird and seems to love solitude. I have never seen it perch 
upon a tree, although I have spent several evenings in watching 
it. It runs with rapidity over the ground and over heaps of 
rubbish left by the Hoods, where it seems to get a good deal of its 
food. Sometimes it will remain for a minute on the point of a 
rock, then as if it were falling over the edge, repeat its shrill cry, 
and dash off again into some hole in the cliffs. The nest is of an 
oblong form very large for the size of the bird, with an entrance 
in the side about two inches wide. It is generally suspended 
under some overhanging rock and is composed of fibrous roots 
interwoven with the web of spiders, the birds having a preference 
for those webs which contain the spiders’ eggs, and that are of a 
greenish colour. The mass does not assume the shape of a nest 
until a few days before it is completed, when a hole for entrance 
is made and the inside warmly lined with feathers ; however, even 
when finished it is a very ragged structure and easily shaken to 
pieces. The birds take a long time building their nests : one I 
