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immense inundated areas of Polygonum bushes that skirt the 
edges of the Lachlan River in the neighourhood of Hillston, New 
South Wales, breaking down the bushes and forming a nest of 
sticks, twigs, and reeds, just above the surface of the water. 
The eggs are very faint greenish-white on the outer surface 
becoming much darker in tint on the inside. The shell is 
lustreless and minutely pitted all over. In a number of 
the eggs of this species now before me, there is a great variation 
in their form, some being true ovals, others elongated, swollen, 
and pointed ovals. 
Specimens in the Australian Museum Collection give the 
following measurements: — length (A) 2 - 58 inches x 178 inch; 
(B) 2 - 59 inches x 1-76 inch. Dimensions of specimens in the 
Dobroyde Collection are as follows : — length (A) 2 - 6 inches x 1 '7 
inch ; (B) 2-52 inches x 1-75 inch; (C) 2'52 inches x 1*75 inch ; 
(D) 2-71 inches x P68 inch ; (E) 2 - 57 inches x 1 "77 inch; (F) 
2-49 inches x 1’7 inch. 
This species breeds during the months of October, November, 
and December. 
Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond 
and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 
Victoria and South Australia, South Coast NewGuinea. ( Ramsay.) 
Genus PLATIBIS, Bonaparte. 
PLATIBIS FLAVIPES, Gould. 
Yellow-legged Spoonbill. 
Gould, llandhk. Bds. Amt , Vol. ii., sp. 542, p. 288. 
From a description of the breeding places of this bird given by 
Mr. K. H. Bennett in the P.L.S. of N.S.W., Vol. vii., p. 324, I 
have made the following extract:— 
“About December 1879, I found this species breeding in great 
numbers in company with Ardea pacijica, in a belt of low trees, 
