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feathers snow white. C. australis has long gi'eenish-black plumes 
on the throat; bases of feathers dusky-brown or black. The nest 
of C. coronoides is built at the extremity of a long, naked, slender 
branch terminating in a thick bunch of twigs and leaves, and 
are in most instances impossible to got at, thus the eggs are very 
difficult to obtain. 
I give the measurements of a set of eggs of C. coronoides, taken 
by Mr. K. H. Bennett, a gentleman who has paid particular 
attention to this and the following species : a set of four taken 
at Ivanhoe on the 1st of September 1885, are elongated in form, 
of a pale greenish ground colour, finely, but thickly freckled with 
scratches of light umber ; length (A) 1'43 x 101 inch ; (B) 1-62 
x 1-03 inch; (C) 1-63 x 1 inch; (D) 1-63 x 1 inch. 
Hah. Derby, N. W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 
Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New Soutli Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus COKONE, Kaup. 
CORONE AUSTRALIS, Gould. 
Australian Raven. 
Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds , Vol. iii., p. 37. 
From a most interesting and exhaustive account by Mr. K. H. 
Bennett in his MS. notes, of the nidification of this species, I extract 
the following : — “ The breeding season of this species is during 
the months of September and October ; the nest is composed 
outwardly of sticks, and lined with soft bark fibre, wool, Arc., and 
is placed in a variety of situations from the highest tree in a clump 
to bushes of the giant or “old man ” saltbush not more than four 
feet high. Scattered over the plains, singly or in clumps of five 
or six in number, are numerous small trees from six to twelve feet 
