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ZOSTEEOPINiE. 
times taken the eggs of Chalcites basalis from nests of the above 
species. 
I lab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
ZOSTEROPS WESTERNENSIS, Quoy el Gaimard. 
Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de VAstrolabe, p. 215, pi. 11, fig. 4. 
This species differs from Z. cairulescens only in having the throat 
wax-yellow and the flanks not being so deeply tinged with rich 
bull' or chestnut-brown. At Manly I have shot the two species 
in company with each other. The nest and eggs so closely 
resemble those of the above species that a second description is 
hardly required, some eggs are slightly more pointed than others, 
but are of the same pale blue or bluish-green tint; an average 
set measures, length (A) O'GG x CN7 inch; (B) O'GG x 047 inch; 
(C) O'GG x 0'48 inch. 
Hob. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
ZOSTEROPS GOULDI, Bonaparte. 
Green-backed Zosterops. 
Gould, llandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol i. sp. 381, p. 5G8. 
Gilbert writes as follows of this species : — “ The Zosterops youldi 
is an inhabitant of the western coast of Australia, where it 
constitutes a beautiful representative of the Z. ctr.rulescens of the 
southern and eastern coasts, The breeding season commences in 
August and ends in November ; those nests that came under my 
observation during the earlier part of the season, invariably 
contained two eggs ; but in October and November I usually 
found the number to be increased to three, and upon one occasion 
