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A set in the Dobroyde Collection are of a greenish-white ground 
colour, heavily blotched all over with irregular shaped markings 
of slaty-black, but more particularly towards the larger end, where 
they become confluent, together with a few spots of a lighter tint 
appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 068 
x 0-52 inch; (B) 0'65 x 0-5 inch ; (C) 0’68 x 052 inch. Taken 
at Dobroyde, October 1860. 
Another set in the same collection, taken September 1861, are 
of a bluish-white ground colour, minutely freckled all over with 
slaty-grey, and slaty-black markings, with a few faint subsurface 
blotches of slaty-lilac ; length (A) 068 x 0-53 inch ; (B) 0-66 x 
0'5 inch; (C) 0-68 x 052 inch. 
September and the three following months constitute the 
breeding season of this species. 
Hub. Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence 
Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 
( Ramsay.) 
SITTELLA TENUIROSTRIS, Gould. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., p. 610. 
“ This is a somewhat doubtful species, and Dr. Hans Gadow, 
who has presumedly examined the type from Mr. Gould’s collection, 
has made it still more doubtful by placing it as identical with 
Sitldla pileata, Gould; but on reference to Mr. Gould’s Handbook, 
Vol. i., p. 610, it will be seen that that author considered the 
bird a variety of S. chrysoptera. As I have specimens agreeing 
very well with Mr. Gould’s description, from the interior provinces 
obtained by Mr. James Ramsay, I prefer to consider it more 
nearly allied to S. chrysoptera than to any other. The length of 
the bill is 0 - 7 inch. The nest is a very beautiful structure placed 
often between the upright forks of a dead branch ; it is very deep, 
open above, the edges sharp not rounded, and composed of fine 
shreds of bark, lichens, and cobweb, the outside felted or 1 shingled ’ 
with small scales of bark fastened on with cobwebs, and made to 
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