. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . shy-brown with a reddish wash to the feathers. Some time elapses beforeyoung birds acquire the black head and crest, white cheeks, and white feathers on the centreof the body like the adult. PSOPIIODES. 339 The nest here figured, I found wlien it Wcas about half built, on the 7th September, 1898,in some undergrowth a foot from the ground, in a gully at Chatswood. Three days later itwas lined with finer materials, and on the 14th September it contained two fresh eggs. It isirregularly formed of long thin twigs; the inside, whi
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . shy-brown with a reddish wash to the feathers. Some time elapses beforeyoung birds acquire the black head and crest, white cheeks, and white feathers on the centreof the body like the adult. PSOPIIODES. 339 The nest here figured, I found wlien it Wcas about half built, on the 7th September, 1898,in some undergrowth a foot from the ground, in a gully at Chatswood. Three days later itwas lined with finer materials, and on the 14th September it contained two fresh eggs. It isirregularly formed of long thin twigs; the inside, which is cup-shaped, being lined with thethin wiry dried leaves of Casuarina siihevosa, and a small quantity of liorse-hair. Externally itaverages six inches and a half in diameter by two inches and a half in depth, and the innercup two inches and three-quarters in diameter by one inch and a half in depth. I foundanother nest of the same pair of birds on the 3rd October following. It was built near thetop of a small turpentine, and was about ten feet from the NEST AND EGGS OF WHIP-BIRD. The breeding season of this species usually commences about the middle of July, andcontinues until the end of January, but nests with eggs are more common in September andOctober. I have tound nests, however, containing fresh eggs as early as the 6th July and aslate as the 22nd December. If successful in rearing their young, the nest of the same pair ofbirds may be found a few feet away from the old one, either for the second brood, or again inthe following season. A smaller race of Psophodes crepitans inhabits the Bellenden Ker Range of North-easternQueensland, which I have characterised under the name of Psophodes lateralis:- Specimensfrom this part of Queensland may be distinguished from P. crepitans in having the wings longer,the tail shorter, and the outermost feathers of the latter tipped with pale brown instead ofwhite. An average specimen measures 9-8 inches, wing 395, tail 5, bill
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