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PLOCEIDiE. 
Hab. Derby, X. W. A., Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 
South Coast New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 
Genus STAGONOPLEUPiA, Cabanis. 
ST AGO NO PLEURA GUTTATA, Shaw. 
Spotted-sided Finch. 
Gould, Ilandble. Ri/s. Auxt., Vol. i., sp. 2 )7, p. 417. 
This beautiful bird is plentifully dispersed over New South 
Wales and Victoria, and is still to be found breeding close to 
Sydney. The nest, like all other members of the genus is composed 
of dried wiry grasses, Ac., spherical in form with an elongated 
neck, used for ingress and egress, it is usually placed low down in 
the thick foliage of a Syncarpia, Eucalyptus, or Anyophora in 
New South Wales. Eggs pure white, five or six in number for a 
sitting, lengthened in form, being nearly equal in size at both ends; 
a set taken at Ashfield by Dr. Ramsay in October 1860, measure 
as follows : — length (A) 0'75 x 0 33 inch ; (B) 0‘71 x 0-7)2 inch ; 
(C) 0 75 x 0-05 inch ; (D) 0 7 x 0*49 inch ; (E) 0-74 x 0-48 inch ; 
(F) 0-78 x 0-48 inch. 
The dimensions of a set of four eggs taken at Broadmeadows, 
Victoria, in November 1873, are as follows: — length (A) 0 - 77 x 
0-52 inch ; (B) 0'73 x 0-5 inch; (C) 0-74 x 0-51 inch; (D) 0‘76 x 
0-49 inch. 
September andthe three following months constitute the breeding 
season of this species. 
Ilal). Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 
Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia. (Ramsay.) 
