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neighbourhood of the Mulgravo and Russell Rivers, in North- 
Eastern Queensland. Mr. Cairn, who found several nests of this 
species, states they are usually built in the tangled roots of 
“lawyer vines,” but not unfrequently on the top of the elk’s-horn 
fern, as high as twelve feet from the ground. The nest is a 
large bulky dome-shaped structure with an entrance on one side, 
it is composed of twigs, roots and mosses, chiefly a species of 
Hypnum, so loosely put together that it will not bear removal. 
Unlike its southern ally 0. spinicandus , it appears that only 
one egg is laid for a sitting. A nest found near “ Roar rocket,” 
on the 20th June last, contained but one egg in an advanced 
state of incubation, others were found as late as the middle 
of August. The breeding season this year (1389) would appear 
to bo from May till the end of September, young birds being 
procured in June, but as in other parts of Australia the breeding 
season of birds is greatly influenced by the rains. The eggs, 
which are pure white, vary from elongated to swollen ovals, some 
being equal in size at each end. Two average sized specimens 
measure: — (A) 1’45 x 1 inch ; (B) 1*38 x IT inch.* 
Hah. Rockingham Bay. (Ramsay.) 
TRICHOGLOSSUS CHLOROLEPIDOTUS, Kuhl 
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet. 
Gould, Handhk. Bds. Anst., Vol. ii., sp. 44G, p. 96. 
Mr. George Barnard of Coomooboolaroo, writes as follows 
relative to the nidification of this species: — “Last season (1889) 
my sons found two nests of Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus, each 
with two eggs in them, these are the only occasions that I have 
known the nests to contain more than one egg for a sitting, all 
other nests (seven in number) found previously of this species had 
only one egg in, sometimes fresh, at other times heavily incubated, 
it may have been accidental and struck me as being strange at the 
time, but I think two eggs must be the proper number for a sitting.” 
* North, Eec. Aus. Mus., Vol. i., part i., p. 38. 
