GEOCICHLA. 
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comprises the months of August and September. The eggs are 
four in number, of a dull greenish-white, blotched all over, but 
particularly at the larger end with large and small irregularly 
shaped patches of olive, some being darker than the others, the 
lighter coloured ones appearing as if beneath the surface of the 
shell; they are three-quarters of an inch in length by five-eighths 
of an inch in bre.adth.” (Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Ausl., Yol. i., 
p. 403.) 
Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, West and South-west Australia. 
(Ramsay.) 
Sub-Family TURDIN^E. 
Genus GEOCICHLA, Kuhl. 
GEOCICHLA LUNULATA, Latham. 
Mountain Thrush. 
Gould, Uandbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 275, p. 439. 
The home of this species is in the thickly wooded mountain 
ranges of the coast. It is very plentiful in the Strzelecki Ranges in 
South Gippsland, frequenting alike the ground and fallen logs, and 
is a bird easily procured, in fact in shooting the difficulty is to get 
far away enough from it so as not to damage the specimen, a task 
which the intervening undergrowth seldom permits, without 
losing sight of the bird altogether. 
The nest is a round open structure, outwardly composed of fine 
strips of bark and mosses, lined with roots ; the rim of the nest is 
very thick and rounded. The position of the nest varies with the 
locality in which it is found, in Gippsland it is usually placed 
between the thick fork of a Eucalyptus about seven or eight feet 
from the ground ; at Cheltenham I have found it placed at the top 
of a Melaleuca. It commencs to breed about the middle of 
July, and continues the three following months. Eggs two 
in number for a sitting, elongated in form, in some instances 
