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bluish-green, sprinkled all over with light reddish-brown dots and 
spots, larger and more crowded on the thicker end, and with also 
a few irregular linear scratchy markings or hair lines. The nest 
and eggs were taken at Stanwell in the 1 llawarra district, by Mr. 
Ralph Hargrave.” (Ramsay, P.L.S., J\ r .S. W., Vol. ii., p. 107.) 
I had the pleasure of examining the above set of eggs, and the 
most striking characteristic about them is their unusually small 
dimensions for the size of the bird. 
IIah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 
(Ramsay ) 
ATLURCEDUS MACULOSUS, Ramsay. 
The Queensland Cat-bird. 
P.Z.S., 1874, p. G01. 
“ This bird is a native of the dense scrubs that are to be found 
in the neighbourhood of Rockingham Bay, and the Johnstone, 
Russell, and Mulgravo Rivers in tropical Queensland. They 
congregate in small flocks in the palms and fig-trees from which 
they obtain their food. During a recent excursion to the 
Bellenden-Ker Ranges, Messrs. E. J. Cairn and Robert Grant, 
collecting on behalf of the Trustees of the Australian Museum 
succeeded in obtaining, among others, a fine series of these birds 
in different stages of plumage ; and, besides finding several nests 
with young birds, they were fortunate in obtaining, although very 
late in the season, a nest containing eggs. The nest and eggs in 
question were found on December 3nd, 1887, in the fork of a 
sapling about seven feet from the ground, on the Herberton road 
at a distance of thirty-two miles from Cairns. The nestis a neat 
bowl-shaped structure, composed of long twigs and leaves of a 
Trislania, lined inside with twigs and the dried wiry stems of 
a climbing plant; on the outside several nearly perfect leaves of 
the Tristania are worked in, and partially obscure one side of 
the nest. Exterior diameter seven inches, by four inches and 
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