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in the avairy of the Hon. William Macleay, of Elizabeth Bay 
during 1887 and 1888. Mr. George Masters, the Curator of the 
Macleayan Museum, informs me that the eggs were two in number 
for a sitting. They are in form oval, of a faint creamy-white, the 
surface of the shell being both slightly granular and glossy. Length 
(A) 1‘3 x 0'93 inch ; (B) 1‘22 x 0-92 inch. These eggs are similar to 
specimens in the Dobroyde Collection, taken by Mr. J. B. White, 
on the Barcoo River during July, 1868. July and August are 
the usual breeding season of his species.” (North, P.L.S, N.S. JR, 
Vol. iii., 2nd Series, p. 148.) 
Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Dawson River, New South Wales, Interior, South Australia. 
(Ramsay.) 
Genus GEOPHAPS, Gould. 
GEOPHAPS SCRIPTA, Temminck. 
Partridge Bronze-wing. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 465, p. 130. 
The “Squatter” or Partridge Bronze Wing is widely dispersed 
over the interior of Australia, and is never found far away from 
the vicinity of water, it is terrestrial in its habits and will often 
allow itself to be almost trodden upon, before taking flight. As 
an article of food it is considered a great dainty, its flesh fully 
equalling in delicacy that of the Wonga-Wonga. Its eggs, two in 
number, are deposited upon the bare ground, sometimes under the 
shelter of any scanty herbage ; in form they are oval, being some¬ 
what slightly pointed at one end, of a faint creamy-white, and the 
shell smooth and slightly glossy. Specimens taken in New South 
Wales by Mr. W. Liscombe, and by Mr. George Barnard on the 
Dawson River, Queensland, measure as follows : — length (A) 1-22 
x 0-9 inch; (B) 1-21 x 0-89 inch. 
The season of incubation in New South Wales is generally 
during the months of September and October, but Mr. Barnard 
