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informs me that in Queensland he has taken the eggs in nearly 
every month of the year. 
Halt. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales, Interior, South Australia. ( Ramsay.) 
GEOPIIAPS SMITHII, Jardine and Selby. 
Smith’s Partridge Bronze-wing. 
Gould, Handbk. lids. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 466, p. 133. 
“This bird incubates from August to October, making no nest 
but merely smoothing down a small part of a clump of grass and 
forming a slight hollow, in which it deposits two eggs, which are 
greenish-white, one inch and a-quarter long by seven-eights of an 
inch in breadth.” (Gouhl, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., p. 133.) 
Ilab. Derby, N. W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria. (Ramsay.) 
Genus LOPHOPHAPS, Rcichcnbach. 
LOPHOPIIAPS LEUCOGASTER, Gould. 
Plnmed Bronze-wing. 
Gould, Suppl. Bds. Aust., pi. 69. 
“Sub-Inspector Armit, late of the Native Police, Queensland, 
obtained specimens in the neighbourhood of Normanton, Gulf 
District, and forwarded a set of the eggs. The nest is placed on 
the ground, and, like that of Geopliaps scripta, consists merely of 
a few blades of grass lining a slight hollow on the lee side of a 
tussock or tuft of grass. Eggs four in number fora sitting; of a 
pale cream colour. Length 1 '05 x 0 - 8 inch. Mr. 1. H. Boyer- 
Bower collected a fine series of this rare bird, in the vicinity of 
Derby, North Western Australia. (Ramsay, 1 .L.S., M.S.J1., 
2nd Series, Vol. i., p. 1095.) 
