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their nests from the sites usually chosen by this bird, the hollow 
limbs of trees, and on several occasions found them breeding in 
company with Cheramoeca leucoslernum, in a hole in the side of a 
bank of a creek, they prefer however to tunnel a hole where the 
earth is harder than the site usually chosen by the White-breasted 
Swallow for its nest. When resorting to the bank of a creek Mr. 
Ramsay informs me the nest is cup-shaped, with a short spout and 
is composed entirely of wiry rootlets and grasses, neither bark or 
feathers being used as when placed in the hollow limb of a tree, 
and that the burrows of the Pardalote can easily be detected from 
those of the White-breasted Swallow by being smaller and rounder. 
The eggs are ovoid in form, and pure white ; a set of four taken 
by Mr. E. L. Ramsay on the Gth November, 1889, from the end 
of a tunnel two feet six inches in length in the bank of a creek in 
Wattagoona horse paddock, measure as follows :—length (A) 0 72 
x 0-5G inch; (B) 0-7 x 0-55 inch ; (0) 0 71 x 0-57 inch ; (D) 0-72 
x 0-55 inch. 
Hab. Port Denison, Dawson River, New South Wales, Interior, 
Victoria and South Australia, West and South-west Australia. 
{Ramsay.) 
COLLYRIOCINCLA PARVISSIMA, Gould. 
Smaller Rufous-breasted Thrush. 
Gould , Ann. & May., Nat• Hist., Yol. x., p. 114. 
Mr. J. A. Boyd of the Herbert River, Queensland, has kindly 
sent the following notes relative to the nidification of this species 
together with the bird and two sets of the eggs for description :— 
“ The nest of this species internally is cup-slurped and is a sub 
stantially built structure, composed principally of fibrous bark 
with a few leaves woven in, it is usually built in a fork about a 
couplo of feet from the ground, I saw one however about eight 
feet up in a Mango; the last nest I found was in a stunted 
Draccona. This season (1889-90) C. parvissima, commenced to 
breed in September, the first nest I found being on the 14th of 
