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Mr. D. Le Souef on some new or 
nest is a beautiful structure, and built in a thick bunch of 
leaves and flowers at the end of a branch of the red-flowering 
melaleuca-tree ; it is domed and very small, and is composed 
almost entirely of the soft downy young melaleuca-leaves 
and buds, all well bound together with cobwebs, and larger 
leaves from the same tree are fastened on round it, almost 
completely hiding the wonderful structure and making it 
very difficult to see. It is lined at the bottom with a little 
white down and some yellow cobwebs ; it measures—external 
breadth 1J inch, internal 1 ; external depth 3 inches, in¬ 
ternal 2. The entrance is near the top, and without any 
porch. The ground-colour of the egg is brown, with a slight 
shade of pink, and with a few faint markings of a darker 
hue, and which form a zone on the larger end, where they 
are confluent; it measures 058 X 044 inch. A short de¬ 
scription of this egg appeared in the Report of the Horn 
Expedition to Central Australia, but no particulars of the 
nest were given. 
8. Atrichia clamosa Gould. (Noisy Scrub-bird.) 
This active bird is found in the southern coastal districts 
of Western Australia, where it inhabits the dense scrubs. 
Its nest and eggs were found by Mr. J. Hassell in October 
1897 near Albany. He was passing along a narrow track 
through some thick scrub, when he heard the bird uttering 
its note ; he forced his way to the place, and when doing so 
suddenly saw the hen bird fly out from what appeared to be 
a bunch of grass close to his feet, but this, on examination, 
proved to be the nest, and he has kindly sent me a description 
of it. It was situated on the ground alongside the root of a 
eucalyptus-tree, which was about 7 inches out of the ground, 
and was dome-shaped and constructed of grass and rootlets, 
with a few leaves, and lined with a white downy-looking 
substance; it measured—height 8J inches, breadth 5|. It 
contained two eggs, slightly incubated, swollen oval in shape, 
and with a ground-colour of reddish white; the markings 
are purplish brown, more plentiful on the larger end, where 
they are confluent; the markings beneath the surface are 
