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TIMELIINJE. 
Tlab. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and 
Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South 
Australia. ( Ramsay.) 
Genus XEEOPHILA, Gould. 
XEROPIIILA LEUCOPSIS, Gould. 
White-faced Xerophila. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 234, p. 382. 
“ The eggs of this species have been unfortunately described as 
being white by Mr. Gould ; that many of our Australian birds 
lay eggs other than of the normal colour must be well known to 
all Australian Oologists, who are not unfrequently a little puzzled 
at getting eggs of the same species totally different from one 
another, nevertheless I believe the eggs described by Mr. Gould as 
those of this species really belong to Geobasileus chrysorrhaia. 
The eggs of the present species as shown by numerous authentic 
examples taken by Mr. James Ramsay and Mr. K. H. Bennett, 
are of a dull white thickly spotted and freckled all over with 
reddish-brown, dull chocolate-brown, or dark wood-brown; in some 
specimens the whole of the ground colour is obscured by reddish- 
brown freckles, others have a zone of confluent spots of dark 
blackish-brown on the larger end and only a few dots or freckles 
on the remaining portion ; average length 07 x 0-53 inch. The 
nests vary in structure according to the situation chosen, some 
being neat and compact placed among the twigs of some low shrub, 
others which are more commonly placed in the hollow branches of 
trees or holes in the sides of dead trees or posts are rather scanty; 
all are composed of grasses and lined with feathers, wool, hair, <tc.” 
( Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W.. Vol. vii., p. 407.) 
Eggs live in number for a sitting. A set taken by Mr. James 
Ramsay at Tyndarie, measures as follows :—length (A) 072 x 0 - 54 
inch ; (B) 074 x 0-55 inch ; (C) 071 x 0-54 inch ; (D) 071 x 0-54 
inch ; (E) 073 x 0-55 inch. 
Hob. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia, West and South-West Australia. ( Ramsay .) 
