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eggs are rather lengthened in form, of a pale pinky-white, clotted 
all over with reddish-chestnut, the spots being thinly dispersed, 
and some of them appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell 
giving them a darker tint, two inches and one-eighth long, one 
inch and five-eighths broad.” (Gould, Ilandbk. lids. Aust., Yol. 
ii., p. 338.) 
Halt. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York. (Ramsay.) 
Genus PORZANA, Vieillot. 
PORZANA PALUSTRIS, Gould. 
Little Water Crake. 
Gould, Ilandbk. lids. Aust, Vol. ii., sp. 574, p. 340. 
“ The nest is an irregular loose structure of dry grass and weeds 
ifcc., rather scanty, placed on the ground among the grass and 
reeds in the vicinity of water, they are plentiful on the margins 
of lagoons in the neighbourhood of Lake George; I also found 
them breeding during October to January on the Clarence River 
near Grafton; the eggs are three in number of a uniform dark 
olive brown, average length 1-07 x 0-81 inch. (Mus. Dobr.)” 
^Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. vii., p. 56.) 
Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 
Tasmania, West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus ERYTHRA, Beichenbach. 
ERYTHRA QUADRISTRIGATA, Ilorsfield. 
White-eyebrowed Water Crake. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 576, p. 343. 
This bird is found in the swamps and thickets of Mangroves 
that skirt the mouths of the rivers of Northern Queensland. A 
single egg of this species in the Dobroyde Collection, taken by 
Mr. E. Spalding from the oviduct of a bird, while engaged on a 
