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Show 590 MR. E. P. RAMSAY ON [Nov. 16, grasses all matted closely and thickly together, and having the leaves of the plant in which it is placed neatly sewed on to the side of the nest; sometimes two or three broad leaves are sewed together with cobweb, and the nest made between them. The eggs are about the size of those of Sericornis brevirostris, of a delicate blue, spotted rather largely with reddish brown; they are three in number. The nest is always placed near the ground where the grass growing through some broad-leaved plant affords it concealment. 100. SERICORNIS CITREOGULARIS. 101. SERICORNIS MAGNIROSTRIS. Both species plentiful in the dense scrubs; their large pendent nests hang like masses of moss-grown de'bris from almost every tree in certain parts. 102. GEOBASILEUS CHRYSORRHOUS. I met with this species about 50 miles inland from Cardwell. There were also several Acanthizee twittering in the scrub close by; but I had no opportunity of determining the species. 103. ANTHUS AUSTRALIS. Always abundant in similar situations to those it frequents in New South Wales. 104. SPHENOSACUS GALACTOTES. This species is one of tbe most common grass-birds ; universally dispersed ever the whole of Queensland. 105. CALAMOHERPE AUSTRALIS. Found only on one occasion in tall reeds while we were shooting wild Geese (Anseranas melanoleucus) ; the note being exactly the same as that of the New-South-Wales bird, I presume it was tbe same species. Did not shoot any specimens. 105*. MlRAFRA HORSFIELDII. I found this species frequenting the dry parts of the grass beds all over the district of the Herbert river. 106. .ZEGINTHA TEMPORALIS. This species appears to be very rare about Cardwell. I met with only one small troop at Dalrymple's Gap, on the road to the Lower Herbert river. 107. NEOCHMIA PHAETON. The most common species from Rockhampton north to Card-well. 108. DoNACOLA CASTANEOTHORAX. This and the preceding two species are the only ones I met with near |