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FREGILINffi. 
in height, these are favourite situations, and one or more nests 
will be found in each of these trees, where possible of construction; 
the eggs are generally four, sometimes five in number.” 
A set of four eggs now before me, taken by that gentleman at 
Mossgiel on the 31st of August 1815, are of a dull green, thickly 
freckled, spotted, and blotched with umber, wood-brown, and 
blackish-brown markings, but more particularly towards the larger 
end ; length (A) 1'72 x M9 inch ; (B) 1-7 x M6 inch ; (C) 1-68 
x 1-22 inch; (D) 1 *68 x 1*17 inch. 
This species is also found breeding in the low trees in the 
vicinity of Laverton and the Werribee, near Melbourne, Victoria. 
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 South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia, West and South-West Australia, Tasmania. (Ramsay.) 
Sub-Family FREGILINJE. 
Genus STRUTHIDEA, Gould. 
STRUTHIDEA CINEREA, Gould. 
Grey Struthidea. 
Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 289, p. 472. 
“ The nest is a round cup or basin-shaped structure, composed 
of mud or clay, about four inches inside diameter ; it is lined with 
grasses, and placed on a horizontal bough, often only a few feet 
from the ground, but occasionally at a height of about twenty to 
thirty feet; the eggs are three or four in number, but sometimes 
five and seven have been taken by Mr. James Ramsay from a 
single nest. They are of a milky-white, sometimes of a skimmed 
milk colour, with spots, and here and there a blotch of blackish- 
umber and blackish-slate colour, or occasionally streaked—some 
