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Family PODICIPITIDJE. 
Genus PODICEPS, Latham. 
PODICEPS CRISTATUS, IAnnceus. 
(P. australis, Gould.) 
Australian Tippet-Grebe. 
Gould, llandhk. lids. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 665, p. 511. 
This bird is found breeding during wet seasons on the back 
waters of many of the inland rivers of New South Wales and 
Victoria. The nest like all others of the genus is composed of 
sedges and other aquatic herbage, and is attached to reeds growing 
in the water, the top of the nest being nearly level with the 
surface. Eggs usually five in number for a sitting, in form 
elongated ovals, slightly pointed at both ends, of a pale bluisli- 
whito colour, which is usually entirely hidden with a thin coating 
of lime, except in some places where a few deep scratches reveals 
the true colour of the shell underneath. A set taken on the 
Lachlan during November 1886, measures as follows : — length (A) 
2-2 x 1-35 inches ; (B) 2 - 23 x 1-35 inches; (C) 2T1 x l - 32 inches. 
I Lab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia, Tasmania. ( Ramsay .) 
PODICEPS NESTOR, Goidd. 
Hoary-headed Grebe. 
Gould, llandhk. lids. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 666, p. 512. 
This bird is dispersed over the eastern and south-eastern portions 
of the continent of Australia, and the whole of Tasmania. It 
forms a floating nest of aquatic herbage and sedges, which is 
attached to. two or three reeds in the water, and is only a few 
inches above the surface. Eggs five in number fora sitting are of 
a pale bluish-white colour when freshly laid, covered with a thin 
