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and cup-shaped structures, but shallower and not so compactly 
formed as those of certain species of Zosterops found on the 
Australian continent; they are composed exteriorly of mosses, 
fibrous roots and grasses, lined inside with hair, and slightly 
suspended by the rim from the thin twigs of branches of low trees 
and shrubs not far from the ground. The eggs are four or five in 
number for a sitting, in form elongated ovals of a uniform delicate 
pale blue, the texture of the shell being very fine and slightly 
glossy. Length 088 x 0'61 inch. 
Lfab. Norfolk Island. 
ZOSTEROPS ALBIGULARIS, Gould. 
White-breasted Zosterops. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., App., sp. 8, p. 535. 
The nidification of the Wliite-breasted Zosterops is similar to 
that of the preceding species, Z. lenuirostris, a description of 
which is therefore unnecessary. Eggs four or five in number for 
a sitting, of a uniform pale blue, two average sized specimens are 
oval in form, one of which tapers gently to the smaller end. 
Length (A) 0-81 x 0-59 inch; (B) 0-81 x 0-58 inch. 
Ilab. Norfolk Island. 
LAMPROCOCCYX PLAGOSUS, Latham. 
(C. lucidus, Gmelin.) 
Bronze Cuckoo. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp; 383, p. 623. 
Like its Australian congeners the Bronze Cuckoo on Norfolk 
Island deposits its egg in the nest of one of thu smaller birds, 
upon whom necessarily devolves the task of incubation, and 
finally the care of the young Cuckoo when hatched. An egg 
of this species taken by Dr. Metcalfe from a nest of Gerygone 
