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it resorts to breed in the numerous inlets and bays, also on the 
islands adjacent to the mainland. Capital sport is to be had 
during the moulting season, by chasing down and capturing these 
birds by means of a fast sailing yacht. It breeds from September 
to January, and constructs a large nest of reeds and other aquatic 
herbage, laying from live to nine eggs of a pale green, the shell 
of which is rather rough, and stained with brown. 
Dimensions of four eggs taken from a swamp near the Lachlan 
River, taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett are as follows — length (A) 
4-1 x 2-6 inches; (B) 4 - 03 x 2'G5 inches ; (C) 3‘9 x 2-55 inches; 
(D) 3-9 x 2-G inches. 
Ilnh. Derby, North-West Australia, Rockingham Bay, Port 
Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New Soutli Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 
West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus CEREOPSIS, Latham. 
CEREOPSIS NOViE-IIOLLANDI^E, Latham. 
Cereopsis Goose. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Ausl., Vol. ii., sp. 578, p. 350. 
This bird is found on the southern coast of Australia, and the 
shores of Tasmania, but the islands of Bass’s Straits is its great 
stronghold and breeding ground. It breeds readily in 
confinement, and I am indebted to Dr. Sinclair of Gladesville, for 
a description of the nest and eggs of this species, who kindly 
allowed me to examine those in his possession. One, of several 
pairs of these birds had chosen for the site of their nest a clump 
of bamboo canes which was growing in a small inclosure in one of 
the paddocks. The nest was made on the ground and was composed 
of the dried leaves and strips of stiff paper-like debris of the 
bamboo, intermingled with down plucked off the breasts of the 
birds. It measured sixteen inches’ across externally, and 
