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family it constructs a flask-shaped nest of dried grasses, which is 
usually placed in a low bush or long grass. Eggs five in number 
for a sitting, pure white. Specimens taken by Mr. Geo. Barnard 
of Coomooboolaroo, Queensland, measures as follows :—length 
(A) 0-6 x 0-41 inch ; (B) 0-63 x 0-4 inch ; (C) 0-G3 x 0-41 inch. 
Hnb. Gulf of Carpentaria, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 
Dawson River, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia. ( Romany .) 
STICTOPTERA ANNULOSA, Gould. 
Ringed Finch. 
Gould, Handbk. /Ids. Aust.. Vol. i., sp. 252, p. 410. 
“This pretty little Finch is found frequenting the northern.and 
north-western portions of the Australian Continent, where it takes 
the place of its near ally S. bichenovii, of the eastern coast. Both 
Mr. E. -T. Cairn and the late Mr. T. II. Boyer-Bower obtained a 
number of specimens of this bird in 1886, at Derby, North-western 
Australia. For the opportunity of describing the eggs I am 
indebted to the Hon. William Macleay, who has lately received 
them from one of his collectors; they were taken near the 
head of the Leonard River, North-western Australia, on the 
2nd of October, 1887. The nest was a flask-shaped structure 
of dried grasses, similar to those of other members of the family, 
and was built in a low bush. In this instance the nest contained 
three fresh eggs, but live is the usual complement; iti colour they 
are white, of a uniform size, each of them giving exactly the same 
measurement, viz. 0455 inch in length by 0'44 inch in width. 
These are among the smallest of our Australian birds’eggs.” From 
the Macleayan Museum Collection. (Forth, Proc. Linn. Soc., F. S. 
IF., Vol. iii., Second Series, p. 146.) 
Mab. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington. 
(Ramsay.) 
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