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ascend the branches, looking like a number of brown balls bouncing 
among the limbs. This species has a wide range of habitat, being 
found equally common on the Darling, Lachlan, Murray, and Bell 
Rivers, as well as over the whole southern portion of the country 
and in Western Australia. Upon the Bell River and near the 
Lachlan, I found them very plentiful in company with the P. 
temporalis, and have frequently found several nests of both species 
built in the same clump of trees, for which purpose they show 
a preference to the thick bushy tops of a species of Acacia allied 
to the ‘ Myall ( Ramsay, Proc. Phil. Soc., Sydney, 1865, p. 318, 
pi. i., fig. 2.) 
A set in the Australian Museum Collection measure (A) 093 x 
063 inch; (B) 0'9 x 0-64 inch ; (C) 089 x 0'65 inch; (D) 0-91 
x 0 - 63 inch ; (E) 093 x 062 inch. 
Hab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, New South 
Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South- 
West Australia. {Ramsay.) 
POMATOSTOMTJS RUFICEPS, Ilartlaub. 
Chestnut-crowned Pomatostomus. 
Gould, Handb/c. Bds. Aust , Vol. i., sp. 295, p. 484. 
“ Nest similar to that of P. temporalis. Eggs a little smaller, five 
in number. In several the ground colour has a very faint tinge of 
green, the blackish hair lines are finer and closer together in some 
nearly obscuring the ground colour, others have a pinkish-chocolate 
tinge. Length 0'95 x 0'72. Dobr. Mus{Ramsay, P.L.S., 
N.S.W., Vol. vii., p. 46.) 
Hab. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. 
{Ramsay.) 
