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brown, thickly and uniformly dispersed over the surface of the 
shell, length 1 *19 x 08 inch. 
Ilab. Norfolk Island. 
MERULA VINITINCTA, Gould. 
Vinous-tinted Ouzel. 
“ Doctor Bird.” Inhabitants of Lord Howe Island. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Ausl., Vol. ii., App., sp. 5, p. 529. 
A nest of this species, taken during the month of October, 
1889, is elliptical in form, with a small cup-shaped depression 
in the top, and is composed throughout of strips of palm leaves 
and fibre of one of the species of Kenlici peculiar to the Island, 
together with skeletons of leaves, but without any special lining, 
it measures exteriorly seven inches in diameter by five inches in 
depth; internally, three inches in depth by two inches and a half 
across. Mr. Icoly states that the nest was built in the branches 
of a shrub not far from the ground. The eggs are two in number 
for a sitting, inclining to elongated ovals in form, slightly pointed 
at the thinner end, of a pale greenish-grey ground colour, with 
freckles, dots and longitudinal markings of reddish-brown dispersed 
over the entire surface of the shell, in some places a few nearly 
obsolete blotches of purplish grey appear. Length (A) 1 ' 15 x 0'77 
inch; (B) M2 x 077 inch* 
Ilab. Lord Howe Island. 
ZOSTEROPS TENUIROSTRIS, Gould. 
Long-billed Zosterops. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., App., sp. 9, p. 536. 
This very distinct and well marked species Dr. Metcalfe found 
breeding during the month of September, the nidification is 
almost similar to that of other members of this widely distributed 
genus found in Australia and elsewhere. The nests are round 
* North, Records Australian Museum, (1890) Vol. i., p. 3G. 
