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Hah. Cape York, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence 
Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and 
South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus PEDIONOMUS, Gould. 
PEDIONOMUS TORQUATUS, Gould. 
Collared Plain-Wanderer. 
Gould , Handbk. Bds. Aust , Vol. ii., sp. 485, p. 187. 
This bird inhabits the large grassy plains of New South Wales 
and South Australia, and has likewise been found breeding as far 
south as the neighbourhood of Melbourne and Adelaide, but in 
both of the latter localities it is considered rare. The nest is 
constructed of dried grasses, and is placed in a slight depression 
in the ground underneath the shelter of some convenient 
shrub or tuft of grass. Eggs four in number for a sitting; in 
shape pyriform, of a stone-white ground colour, thickly freckled 
and blotched, and a few smudges here and there of different shades 
of umber-brown and slaty-grey, a few nearly obsolete blotches of 
the latter colour appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. 
An average specimen in the Dobroyde Collection, taken at 
Springfield, near Goulbum in December 1875, measures 1 *35 x 
0-94 inch. Another from a set of four, taken near Adelaide, 
measures 1*2 inch in length by 0’89 inch in breath. 
Specimens in my own collection taken near Pyramid Hill in 
Victoria, measure as follows: — length (A) l - 33 x 0'94 inch ; (B) 
1 -34 x 0 - 95 inch. 
October and November are the principal breeding months of 
this species. 
Hal. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia 
(Ramsay.) 
