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TITTIDiE. 
of a pale stone ground colour, in others greenish, thickly freckled 
with reddish-brown over the entire surface of the shell, occasionally 
eggs are found with only a few minute markings upon the larger 
end. Dimensions of a set taken at Cheltenham, July 1878:— 
length (A) l - 42 x0'91 inch ; (B) 1*4 x 0'91 inch. 
Aset taken at Dobroyde, July 1860, measures as follows : — 
length (A) 1-4 x 0-89 inch; (B) 1-38 x 0-87 inch. 
Sab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 
{Ramsay.') 
GEOCICHLA MACRORIIYNCHA, Gould. 
Gould , P.Z.S., 1837, p. 145. 
“ The nest and eggs very much the same as those of G. Imiulata, 
Lath., but are larger ; the eggs are three for a sitting, of a greenish- 
white, strongly freckled all over, but more numerously at the 
larger end with rich reddish-brown; some confluent markings 
take a longitudinal direction or run obliquely with the long axis of 
the egg. An average specimen measures 1-33 inches in length by 
0-95 inch through its short diameter.” (Ramsay , P.L.S., N.8. W., 
2nd Series, Vol. i., p. 1147.) 
Sab. Tasmania. 
Family PITTIDiE. 
Genus PITTA, Vicillot. 
PITTA STREPITANS, Temminck. 
Noisy Pitta. 
Gould, Sandb. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 269, p. 430. 
“ This species, is found plentifully in the dense “ brushes ” of the 
Clarence and Richmond Rivers, and that I believe is its nearest 
habitat to Sydney ;* while to the north its range extends to the 
* A single specimen was shot near Wollongong in 1883. (E.P.Jt.) 
