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CERTHIINiE. 
CLIMACTERIS RUFA, Gould. 
Rufous Tree-creeper. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 367, p. 600. 
“ Tliis species makes a very warm nest of soft grasses, the clown 
of flowers and feathers in the hollow part of a dead branch, 
generally so far down that it is almost impossible to reach it, and 
it is, therefore very difficult to find. I discovered one by seeing 
the old birds beating away a Wattle-bird that tried to perch near 
their hole; the nest, in tliis instance, was fortunately within arm’s 
length ; it contained three eggs of a pale salmon colour, thickly 
blotched all over with reddish-brown, eleven lines long by eight 
and a-half lines broad : this occurred during the first week in 
October.” (Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., p. 600.) 
Hah. Derby, NYW. Australia, Western Australia. (Ramsay.) 
CLIMACTERIS ERYTHROPS, Gould. 
Red-syebrowed Tree-creeper. 
Gould, Handbk. Birds Aust., Yol. i., sp. 368, p. 602. 
The nest of this species, like all other members of the genus, is 
built of grasses, lined witli feathers and placed in one of the 
numerous spouts or hollow branches of the Eucalypts. 
“ I am indebted to Mr. K. H. Bennett, of Mossgiel for a fine 
set of the eggs of this species, the first I had seen ; they closely 
resemble some of the varieties of those of Plentedus rufescens, but 
have a climacterine look about them, and a smooth shell. The 
ground colour, apparently white, is obscured with evenly dispersed 
dots and freckles of a rich red, which, occasionally confluent, 
form elongated spots here and there; some have a zone formed 
by confluent spots of red intermixed with slate or lilac-brown, and 
here the spots are largest, and the lilac marks appear beneat h the 
shell. The following are the measurements : — (A) 083 x 065 
inch; (B) 0-85 x 0-63 inch ; (C) 0'82 x 063 inch.” (Ramsay, 
P.L.S., N.S.W., 2nd Series, Yol. i., p. 1149.) 
