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Show 1^75.] BIRDS FROM QUEENSLAND. 591 Cardwell. Poephila gouldiee was described to me very correctly, and said to have been met with on the tablelands about 30 miles from Waterview; I did not find any specimens myself. 109. PITTA STREPITANS, var. SIMILLIMA. This northern variety of Pitta strepitans I found common enough at the Herbert river and scrubs around Cardwell. Some of the specimens are deeper-coloured and smaller even than any I have seen from Cape York ; others, again, are not to be distinguished from the New-South-Wales birds; the white spot on the wing is almost obsolete in many from the ranges near Cardwell. Their notes are exactly the same in all localities. The nest and eggs are the same, and are found to vary in the same way as those described and figured by me in 'The Ibis,' 1867, p. 417. In size they are slightly smaller. I believe the finely spotted variety of the eggs of this species, taken at Cape York by Cockerell and Thorpe, was at the time mistaken for the eggs of Pitta mackloti-which is very probable. One thing is certain, I never knew a nest of either Pitta strepitans or P. simillima to contain more than three eggs alike; and most often two out of the four (the number invariably laid for a sitting) have been of the finely spotted and light-coloured variety, the other two strongly and deeply marked, as figured in ' The Ibis,' 1867, p. 417. 110. OREOCINCLA LUNULATA. I only once met with this species, in the scrubs on rocky sides of the coast-range; the eggs elongate, greenish, spotted with reddish brown, four in number. 111. iELURCEDUS MACULOSUS, Ramsay, P. Z. S. 18/4, p. 601. This interesting species appears to take the place of the JE. smithii of New South Wales. W e found it feeding on the fruit of the native figs, in small families of four to eight in number. The note is more of a whistle than a cry oi any kind. 112. SCENOPffiUS DENTIROSTRIS, gen. et sp. nov. The whole of the upper surface, wings, and tail rich olive-brown, the inner webs of the primaries and secondaries blackish brown, their margins near the base buffy white; under surface of the shoulders yellowish buff, with remains of broken bars of blackish brown on the smaller feathers ; the under wing-coverts yellowish buff, with cross bars of dull brown ; under primary-coverts buff, crossed more distinctly with dull brown ; under surface of primaries and secondaries dark ashy brown, the basal half of the inner margin buff tinged with a faint wash of light rufous, flanks olive-buff; abdomen buff; uuder tail-coverts olive-buff, each feather barred with two or more lanceolate marks of dull olive-brown, under surface of the tail dull brown; throat, neck below, chest, and the rest of the under surface buffy white, each feather margined with olive-brown, which becomes lighter and less distinct on the lower parts, and almost obsolete on the flanks PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1875, No. XXXVIII. 38 |