. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . black; croiun of the head chestmit-brown, with a black streak down the centre; sides of7ieck,Jore neck and breast light fawn colour; a large patch on the centre of the abdomen black; ventand under tail-coverts scarlet: bill dark brown; legs and feet fleshy-brown: iris brown. Total lengthin the flesh 9 inches, wing 5, tail 31, bill Il, tarsus IS. Adult female—Similar in plumage to the male. Distribution—Eastern Queensland, North-eastern New South Wales. /T^HE Noisy Pitta, or Dragoon-bird, is an inhabitant of the coastal brushe
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . black; croiun of the head chestmit-brown, with a black streak down the centre; sides of7ieck,Jore neck and breast light fawn colour; a large patch on the centre of the abdomen black; ventand under tail-coverts scarlet: bill dark brown; legs and feet fleshy-brown: iris brown. Total lengthin the flesh 9 inches, wing 5, tail 31, bill Il, tarsus IS. Adult female—Similar in plumage to the male. Distribution—Eastern Queensland, North-eastern New South Wales. /T^HE Noisy Pitta, or Dragoon-bird, is an inhabitant of the coastal brushes of North-A. eastern New South Wales, and the greater portion of similarly situated districts inEastern Queensland. So far as this species is represented in the Australian Museum collection,Comboyne, Camden Haven is its southern limit in the former State, a specimen in the fleshbeing received on the 4th July, 1906, procured there by Mr. J. L. Brown. Dr. E. P. Ramsay hasrecorded, however, that a single specimen was shot near Wollongong in 1883, forty eight 310. THE NOISY PITTA. miles south of Sydney. There are numerous examples in the collection obtained on the Bellinger,Richmond and Tweed Rivers, the wing-measurement averaging 5 inches in length, and preciselysimilar in length to a male and female procured by Mr. George Masters at Wide Bay,Queensland, in October 1867. A gradual decrease in size is perceptible in specimens from thefarther north in which they are obtained, examples procured by Messrs. Cairn and Grant near Cairns, and by Broadbent at Cardwell,having an average wingmeasurement of 4*65 inches,and almost intermediate insize between Pitta sirepitansand the smaller race, , Gould, from CapeYork. The feathers of theback, and the scapulars ofmany adult specimens fromall parts of Eastern Aus-tralia, have a conspicuousblack sagittate markingpointing upwards on theapical portion of the feather. While in Brisbane Broadbent informed me that he used
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