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Hob. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 
Tasmania. ( Ramsay .) 
ANELLOBIA LUNULATA, Gould. 
L emulated Wattle-bird. 
Gould, Haudbk. Bds. Aupt., Vol. i., sp. 333, p. 543. 
“ A remarkable circumstance, says Gilbert, connected with the 
incubation of this bird is that it appears to lay but a single egg 
and to have no regular time of breeding, its nest being found in 
abundance from August to November. It is rather small in size, 
and is deposited in the fork of a perpendicular growing branch : 
the tree most generally chosen is that called by the colonists of 
Swan River the stink-wood, but it has been found in the parasitic 
clump of a Banksia, and also in a small scrubby bush two or three 
feet from the ground ; but it is more frequently constructed at a 
height of at least eight or twelve. It is formed of dried sticks, 
and lined with Zamia wool, soft grasses or flowers, and sometimes 
with sheep’s wool. The egg is rather lengthened in form, being 
one inch and two lines long by nine and a-lialf lines broad ; its 
ground colour is a full reddish-buff thinly spotted and marked 
with deep chestnut-brown and chestnut-red, some of the spots and 
markings appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell, and 
being most thickly disposed near the larger end.” {Gould, 
Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., p. 543.) 
Hah. West Australia. 
Genus TROPIDORHYNCHUS, Vigors and Rorsficld. 
TROPIDORHYNCHUS CORNICULATUS, Latham. 
Friar Bird. 
Gould, Handblc. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 334, p. 545. 
This bird is plentifully dispersed over the eastern and south¬ 
eastern portions of the continent of Australia. A nest of this 
species in the Australian Museum Collection, is an open cup- 
