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with minute freckles, dots, spots, and a few penumbral blotches 
of different shades of umber-brown uniformly dispersed over the 
surface of the shell, obsolete markings of the same colour, and 
deep bluish-grey also appear. Length 1-33 x 1-01 inch. Mr. 
Atkinson obtained another nest in the same locality together 
with the bird, each of which contained but a single egg, but two 
is the usual number laid for a sitting, 
Hah. Wide Bay District, New South Wales, Victoria, South 
Australia, Tasmania, West and South west Australia. {Ramsay.) 
STERNULA SINENSIS, Omelin. 
(S. placens, Gould.) 
Chinese Tern, White-shafted Ternlet, &c. 
Gould, Ann. & May. Nat. Hist. (4), Vol. viii., p. 192. 
This bird was found breeding by Messrs. Grime & Yardley, 
during a visit to the Tweed River Heads on the 7th October, 
1889. The eggs two in number for a sitting were laid in a slight 
depression in the sand, all the eggs taken at that time being in 
an advanced stage of incubation ; in form they vary from true 
ovals to swollen ovals, terminating somewhat abruptly at one 
end, some of them being of a stone-grey ground colour, others a 
light coffee-brown, with rounded spots and irregular shaped 
penumbral blotches of umber-brown and dark slaty-grey, the 
latter colour in some instances predominating and appearing as 
if beneath the surface of the shell. Four specimens measure as 
follows (A) 1-28 x 0-95 inch ; (B) 1-27 x 0-94 inch; (C) D18 x 
0'95 inch ; (D) 1'25 x 0 - 9 inch. Skins of the parent birds were 
obtained and forwarded with the eggs for identification.* 
Hab. Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port 
Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, Now South Wales, South Coast of New Guinea. 
(Ramsay.) 
North, Records Australian Museum, (1890) Vol. i., p, 39. 
