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Sound, 556 miles N.W. of Brisbane. A week after, seeing the 
female sitting on the nest for some length of time, he climbed up 
to it and found it contained a perfectly fresh egg, which he took 
(not waiting for the full complement, which is probably two), as 
the tree was a difficult one to climb, at the same time securing 
the nest. It was a small and shallow structure composed of wiry 
grasses securely fastened together with cobwebs, and closely 
resembled the branch on which it w T as placed. The egg is ovoid 
in form, of a very pale bluish-grey ground colour, uniformly 
spotted and dotted with irregular shaped markings of different 
shades of umber and slaty-brown, underlying blotches of slaty- 
grey appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length 
1-2 x 0-82 inch. In the colour and disposition of its markings, 
it resembles some varieties of the eggs of Sitlella chrysoptera, and 
in shape and size that of the egg of Graucalus hyperleucus, but 
is entirely free from the asparagus-green ground colour which 
predominates in the eggs of the latter genus. This is the only 
occasion I have known of the nest and egg of this species having 
been taken. 
The Northern and Eastern portions of the Australian Continent 
constitutes the habitat of this species. 
CIIIBIA BRACTEATA, Gould. 
Spangled Drongo-Shrike. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Austr., Yol. i., sp. 132, p. 235. 
This migratory species is rather freely dispersed over the greater 
portions of Northern and Eastern Australia, it arrives at Cape 
York about the middle of April, and the Herbert River in May. 
Mr. C. C. L. Talbot found it breeding on Collaroy Station, near 
Broad Sound, Queensland, on the 10th of October, 1882. The 
nests in every instance were open and slightly cup-shaped 
structures, composed entirely of long stems of a climbing plant 
and fibrous roots, and were attached to the fine leafy twigs at 
the extremities of the branches of a dwarf white gum, at an 
