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more numerous on the larger end. Two eggs in the Australian 
Museum Collection measui’e as follows:—length (A) 0'77 x 0 - 57 
inch ; (B) 0‘76 x 0'54 inch. 
A set taken at Dobroydo in September I860, give the 
following measurements:—length (A) 0 - 73 x 0 - 54 inch; (B) 
0-75 xO-55 inch. 
In New South Wales this species commences to breed in August 
and continues during the four following months. 
Eab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. {Ramsay.) 
ACANTHORHYNCHUS DUBIUS, Gould. 
Gould, P.Z.S., part v., p. 25. 
“ Some ornithologists do not consider this a good species, Mr. 
Gould himself, who first pointed out its difference from the 
northern and eastern Australian continental forms, inclining to 
believe them identical; but as the Tasmanian bird is smaller in 
all its admeasurements, and much richer and deeper in the tints 
of the under surface, I give the description of a set of eggs taken 
near Hobart in October 1885. Eggs two in number for a sitting 
of a pale buff, approaching a light saturnine-yellow on the larger 
end, where they are minutely spotted with irregularly shaped 
markings of deep chestnut-brown, and a few nearly obsolete 
spots of bluish-grey. Length (A) 073 x 0-53 inch ; (B) 0-75 x 0-54 
inch.” (North, P.L. S., N.S. W., 2nd Series, Vol. ii., p. 408.) 
Hab. Tasmania. (Gould.) 
ACANTHORHYNCHUS SUPERCILIOSUS, Gould. 
White-eyebrowed Spine-bill. 
Goidd, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 340, p. 553, 
“The nest, which is constructed among the large-leaved Banksias, 
is of a round compact form, and is composed of dried fine grasses, 
