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TURDID.E. 
strips of bark and the partially decayed fibre of reeds, lined inside 
with dried grasses, and has two feathers worked into the bottom; 
external diameter three inches, depth three inches and three- 
quarters, internal diameter two inches, depth two inches. This 
nest was placed as usual, about two or three feet from the 
surface of the water. Occasionally a frog is found in snug 
possession of one of these nests. Eggs three or four in number 
for a sitting, but usually four; they vary considerably in the tints 
and disposition of their markings. 
A set taken by Dr. Ramsay at Macquarie Fields in October 1860, 
are of a yellowish-brown ground colour, spotted and blotched all 
over with markings of umber, blackish-brown, and nearly obscure 
patches of light olive-brown. Length (A) 0-81 x O'59 inch ; (B) 
0 - 78 x 0'58 inch ; (C) 0'79 x 0-6 inch. 
A set taken on the Lower Yarra, in November 1878, are of a 
pale bluish-white ground colour, heavily blotched with purplish- 
black, olive-brown and bluish-grey, the latter colour appearing as 
if beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 0'81 x 0'58 inch; 
(B) 0'79 x 0-55 inch : (C) 0'79 x 0'59 inch ; (D) 0'8 x O'Gl inch. 
The breeding season commences in October and lasts during 
the three following months. 
Hob. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia. {Ramsay.) 
ACROCEPHALUS LONG1ROSTRIS, Gould. 
Long-billed Reed Warbler. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust , Vol. i., sp. 247, p. 403. 
According to Mr. Gould the nest of this species “ is placed on 
four or five upright reeds growing in the water, at about two feet 
from the surface. It is of a deep cup-shaped from, and is composed 
of the soft skins of reeds and dried rushes. The breeding-season 
