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SCENOPIID.®. 
a-half in depth; interior diameter four inches and three-quarters, 
by two inches and a-half in depth. Eggs two in number for a 
sitting, nearly true ovals in form, tapering but slightly at one end, 
of a uniform creamy-white ; the shell is thin, the surface being 
smooth and slightly glossy. (A) 1 -67 x I'll ; (B) 1 -03 x 11 inch. 
Both parent birds were procured at the time of taking the eggs, 
which were in a very advanced state of incubation. In addition 
to finding a great number of other nests, several very young birds of 
Afacropygiaphasianella , PHIopus superbus, and 0rthonyx spaldingi 
were also obtained in the same locality, showing that the breeding 
season had just terminated. It is only right to mention that the 
eggs described above are not altogether, what from analogy, they 
might be expected to be, being quite different from those of any 
other species of the family Scenopiidce. Messrs Cairn and Grant, 
however, state that there can be no doubt as to their authenticity. 
(Aust.Mus. Coll)" (North, P.L.S., JV.S.W., Vol. iii., 2nd Series, 
p. 147.) 
Hab. Rockingham Bay District and Bellenden-Ker Ranges. 
( Eamsa \/.) 
Genus CHLAMYDODERA, Gould. 
CHLAMYDODERA MACULATA, Gould. 
Spotted Bower-bird. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 279, p. 450. 
“ Our knowledge of the range of this species has recently been 
extended to Cape York; previously Rockingham Bay was 
considered its northern limit on the coast, and the Murray district 
in Victoria, and South Australia, its most southern range. The 
interior provinces are the stronghold of this species, where it is 
found plentifully dispersed all over the Lachlan and Darling River 
districts. It also occurs inland about eighty miles west from 
Rockhampton. 
