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CIIERAMCECA LEIJCOSTERNUM, Gould. 
White-breasted Swallow. 
Gould, ILandhk. lids. Aust., Yol. i., sp. f>7, p. llo. 
Mr. Edward Lord Ramsay informs me that during several years 
residence on Wattagoona Station, near Louth, in the interior of 
New South Wales, he found many nests of this species. In 
favourable situations they breed in small communities, boring a 
tunnel from eight inches to two feet in length in the loose loamy 
soil of the bank of a dry creek or dam, at the extremity of which 
a chamber is hollowed out, and on the bottom a small saucer-shaped 
nest is formed of a thick layer of dead “ Mulga ” leaves (Acacia 
aneura). In a number of nests examined five eggs was the usual 
number laid for a sitting, in one instance only did he find a nest 
containing six. The eggs are pure white and invariably true 
ovoids in form. The set of six referred to, taken on the 28th Sep¬ 
tember, 1887, measure as follows :—length (A) 0 68 x 0-5 inch ; 
(B) 0-7 x 0-5 inch ; (C) 0-68 x 0-5 inch ; (D) 0-69 x 0-5 inch ; (E) 
0-7 x 0-49 inch ; (F) 0-68 x 0'51 inch. 
Another set of four taken by Mr. Ramsay on the same date, 
measure (A) 0-67 x 0-5 inch ; (B) 0-67 x 0-48 inch ; (C) 0-67 x 
0-48 inch; (D) 0-67 x 0-49 inch. 
Uab. New South Wales, Interior, South Australia, West and 
South-west Australia. (Ramsay.) 
ALCYONE DIEMENENSIS, Gould. 
Tasmanian Kingfisher. 
Gould llandbk. Ms. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 70, p. 141. 
Mr. Atkinson of Tasmania, has kindly forwarded the eggs of 
this species for description with the accompanying data :— 
The eggs of Alcyone dicmenensis, were taken on the lltli of 
January, 1890, by Mr. M. Ford, who lives near me, from a hole 
in the bank of Seabrook Creek in this neighbourhood; I have 
measured the hole, finding it including the chamber at the end 
