EPHTHIANUR A. 
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found on the 6th August 1861, was not finished until the 25th of 
the same month ; on the 30th we took three eggs from it. This 
nest was suspended from the roof of a small cave in the gully of 
George’s River, near Macquarie Fields, and was composed of 
rootlets and spiders’ webs warmly lined with feathers and opossum- 
fur, it contained three eggs of a pure and glossy-white, each egg 
being eight and a-half lines in length by six and a-half lines in 
breadth. Sometimes the eggs are nine but more often eight and 
eight and a-half lines long. They arc very similar in appearance 
to those of Latham’s Grass-Finch, Amadina lathami. The 
breeding time lasts from August to December, during which time 
two broods are raised.” (Ramsay , Ibis, 1863, Yol. v., p. 445.) 
A set of three in the Australian Museum Collection, taken at 
Middle Harbour, Sydney, measures as follows :—length (A) 0-8 x 
0’6 inch ; (B) 0 - 79 x 0'62 inch ; (C) 0'78 x 0'6 inch. 
Hab. Wide Bay District, New South Wales. (Ram any ) 
Genus EPHTHIANUR A, Gould. 
EPIITHIANURA TRICOLOR, Gould. 
Tri-coloured Ephthianura. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 233, p. 380. 
“ The nest is of fine grasses lined with fine rootlets and a few 
hairs, it is cup-shaped, two inches in diameter inside and two 
inches deep, and was placed in a wind-bent tuft of coarse grass, 
the sides of the nest were hidden by the tops of grasses stuck in 
perpendicularly round the rim, hanging over it in some places and 
forming a more secure framework all round. The eggs were three 
in number, of a pure white with rich clear red dots sprinkled over 
the surface a little closer together at the thick end, but not forming 
a zone there. Length (A) 0 63 x 0-5 inch ; (B) 0-65 x 0‘5 inch.” 
(Ramsay , P.L.S., JV.S. IF, Yol. vii., p. 48.) 
