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CINNYR1S FRENATA, Muller. 
Australian Sun-bird. 
Gould, Ilandb. Bds. Austr., Yol. i., sp. 359, p. 584. 
Regarding the nidification of this species, Mr. Boyd under date 
31st December, 1889, writes as follows :—“ We have on the 
estate three houses with verandahs, and in each verandah a pair 
of Ginnyris, have built; it is strange why this little bird should 
seek man’s society, one pair has bred for years in a verandah 
nearly always occupied by three children and four kangaroo dogs. 
One pair that for the last two seasons have built by the side of 
the house, came round to the front door on the 23rd November 
and selected a piece of rope that pulled up the bamboo verandah 
blind, and began building. I at once nailed the rope so that it 
could not be moved, and have since kept them under observation. 
Their first proceeding was to cover the cord for about eighteen 
inches with a layer of bark, cobweb, moss, ifec., until it was about 
two inches in thickness ; on the 28th the bottom of the nest and 
the little verandah were begun, and with the sides were almost 
completed on the following day. On the 5th December I saw 
the female in the nest, on the 17th I looked in the nest and saw 
two eggs, on the 2lst there were young ones.” 
Mr. Boyd informs me in a subsequent letter that the young 
birds left the nest on the 4th January, which was forty-three days 
from the date of commencing the nest. 
This bird usually selects the twigs of a low shrub as a site to 
attach its domed and hood-covered nest. 
IIab. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, South Coast 
New Guinea. ( Ramsay.) 
ORTHONYX SPALDING I, Ramsay. 
Spalding's Orthonyx. 
“ Chowchilla.” Aborigines of Cairns District. 
Ramsay, P/oc, Zool. Soc., 1868, p. 386. 
This species has recently been met with rather freely dispersed 
through the dense brushes of the coastal range, chiefly in the 
