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PLOCEID/E. 
plentifully in the extensive grass beds of the Clarence and Richmond 
River Districts, also at Maryborough, Queensland. The nest is 
a large structure, in shape like a flask or bottle placed on its side, 
and the entrance which is about an inch and a-hulf wide, is 
situated at the end of a long neck, the whole being about fourteen 
inches in length by sis inches in diameter at its widest part. It 
is usually built near the top of some bushy shrub, or in tangled 
masses of vines, and composed of grasses and the leaves of reeds, 
with fine stems of plants (Goodenia or Lobelia, according to the 
district its owner frequents), being lined with finer materials — 
the downy tops of reeds and flags, and occasionally a few feathers. 
It closely resembles the nest of Keochima phaeton, which I have 
received from Port Denison, and like that is often found placed 
among the stiff leaves of a grass-like plant growing upon the sides 
of the trees in and about the edges of the scrubs. The eggs are 
four or five in number, slightly larger than those of ACyintha 
temporalis, of a dead limy-white colour ; a set taken at Iindah, on 
the Mary River, Queensland, measure as follows : — length Off)4 x 
0’48inch ; 0 - G5 x0'48 inch ; 0G7 x Off) inch ; two other eggs from 
the same nest are slightly smaller.” (Ramsay, Ibis, 18G8, p. 232.) 
Ilab. Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Wide 
Ray District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales. (Ramsay.) 
Genus POEPHILA, Gould. 
POEPHILA CINCTA, Gould. 
Banded Grass-finch. 
Gould, llandbk. Eds. Aust., Yol. i., sp, 2G4, p. 425. 
“ This species was formerly abundant in the neighbourhood of 
Rockhampton, but during my visit to those parts in 1869-70, not 
a specimen could be found, the bird having been entirely 
exterminated by the “ trappers,” for the European markets. It 
