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ATLURCEDUS VTRTDTS, Latham. 
The Cat-bird. 
Gould , Handbk. 1Ids. Austr.,Yo\. i., sp. 277, p. 44G. 
The habitat of the Cat-bird is the dense scrubs of the coastal 
ranges of New South Wales. Tt is particularly plentiful at 
Cambewarra and the Kangaroo Valley, in the Illawarra District, 
and is found in favourable localities all through the southern 
portions of the coast ranges, becoming scarcer however as the 
boundary of the colony is approached. The rich brushes in the 
neighbourhood of the Clarence, Richmond, and Tweed Rivers are 
also strongholds of this species, and it is also found, but not so 
freely dispersed in the extreme south of Queensland. Although 
a common and well known bird for many years, being described 
by Latham in 1802, as Graculn viridis, from specimens brought 
to England by Captain King, which were procured at Port Jack- 
son, the authentic nest and eggs of this species appear until lately 
to have been unknown. Dr. Ramsay described a nest and eggs, 
said to belong to this species, in the Proceedings of the Linnean 
Society of New South Wales,* upon the authority of the late Mr. 
Ralph Hargrave who had taken them near Stanwell, in the Tlla- 
warra District, but Dr. Ramsay himself had some misgivings at 
the time as to their authenticity, on account of the comparatively 
small dimensions of the eggs for the size of the bird, doubts which 
I fully shared with him when I saw the specimens referred to 
some years afterwards. 
The finding of the nest and eggs of a closely allied species, the 
Queensland Cat-bird, Ailunedua maculosus, Ramsay, by Messrs. 
Cairn and Grant, from which the parent birds were shot, and 
which were described by me in the Proceedings of the Linnean 
Society of New South Wales,f dispelled at once any idea as to the 
nest and eggs of the so-called A. viridis , taken by Mr. Hargrave 
being authentic. 
* proc. Linn. Soo. N.S.W., Vol. ii„ (1877) p. 107. 
f Proc. Linn, Soc., N.S.W., Vol. iii., Second Series, ( 1888 ) p. 147- 
