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indeed should there not be they quietly set to work and scratch 
it together again. The mounds of the Tallegallus are seldom 
found on a great incline when a level spot can be obtained. They 
frequently bring the debris from a considerable distance, and in 
one instance on the Richmond River I noticed a place where about 
a cartload had been scratched through a shallow part of a creek 
three or four inches deep in water, and up the other side of the 
bank to the mound, which was over forty yards distant. The 
debris is always thrown behind them. The greatest number of 
eggs taken from one mound at one time was thirty-six. This was 
a very old mound and resorted to by several individuals. The 
eggs vary much in size, and in shape from almost round to a long 
oval, or pointed at the thin end ; their usual form is an oval 
slightly smaller at one end. The shell is very thin, minutely 
granulated, and snow-whito in colour.” (Ramsay, P.Z.S., 187G> 
p. 116.) 
Dimensions of thirteen eggs taken from an egg-mound on 
Taranya Creek, a branch of the Richmond River, in November 
1866, by Dr. Ramsay arc as follows: — length (A) 3'55x2'33 inches; 
(B) 3'6 x 2'42 inches; (C) 3-55 x 2'4 inches; (D) 3'27 x 2'43 inches; 
(E) 3'59 x 2'4 inches ; (F) 3'65 x 2'25 inches ; (G) 3'58 x 2'27 
inches; (H) 3'58 x 2'39 inches ; (I) 3'9 x 2'4 inches; (J) 3'47 x 
2'47 inches ; (K) 3'65 x 2'45 inches ; (L) 3'53 x 2'55 inches ; (M) 
3'67 x 2'5 inches. 
JIab. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 
District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence River Districts, 
New South Wales. (Ramsay.) 
Genus LEIPOA, Gould. 
LEIPOA OCELLATA, Gould. 
Ocellated Leipoa. 
GoulJ, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 477, p. 155. 
This bird is an inhabitant of the scrubs and plains of the inland 
portions of the continent of Australia, and is also met with in the 
