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that month, which contained three eggs, and the last with two 
fresh eggs in it on the 2nd of January.” 
E SS S th re e in number for a sitting, ovoid in form, pearly-white 
one set being evenly spotted over the surface of the shell with 
umber-brown and slaty-grey markings. Length (A) 0 98 x 0 74 
inch ; (L) 1 x 0 73 inch: (C) 0'97 x 0-73 inch. In the other set 
the markings are mostly confined to the larger end, being heavily 
blotched with umber-brown and superimposed markings of dark 
slaty-grey. 
Uab. Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, South 
Coast of Now Guinea, (Ramsay.) 
IIETEROMYIAS CINEREIFRONS, Ramsay. 
Ashy-fronted Flycatcher. 
“ Win-dan.” Aborigines of Cairns District. 
Ramsay, Proo. Zoot Soc., 1875, p. 588. 
During September and October of 1889, several nests of 
this species were obtained by Messrs. Cairn and Grant, in the 
scrubs of the Ilerberton tableland, in every instance they were 
found in the “ lawyer vines (a species of Calamus), about four or 
live feet from the ground, several of these nests now before me 
are built between the forked stems, or where several vines cross 
each other, in other instances they are placed at the base 
of leaves on the thin horizontal stems, to which the nest is 
attached. The outside of the nest is formed of thin twigs, wiry 
rootlets, skeletons of leaves, and the fibre of the “ lawyer vino,” the 
inside which is cup-shaped, being neatly lined with finer materials, 
while the exterior portion of the nest is ornamented with mosses 
and lichens, which gives it a pleasing appearance. Exterior 
diameter 4-5 inches, depth 4 inches, internal diameter 2-75 inches, 
depth 11 inch. The eggs are two in number for a sitting, and 
closely resemble in shape and colour large specimens of Artamus 
superciliosus, being of a iMl bufly-white ground colour, thickly 
