. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . WesternAustralia, Mme. Octave Le Bon informed methat a pair of these birds built their nest inside arusty old tin lying on the ground near her house. The eggs are usually five or six in numberfor a sitting, and of a faint bluish-white colour;they are oval in form, the shell being close-grained,smooth and lustreless. A set of six taken by I^amsay at Tyndarie in October, 1879, measures:—Length (A) o-6 x 0-43 inches; (B)o-6i X 0-45 inches; (C) o-66 x 0-42 inches; (D) 0-62 x 0-43 inches ; (E) o-66 x 0-46 inches ;(F) 0-65
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . WesternAustralia, Mme. Octave Le Bon informed methat a pair of these birds built their nest inside arusty old tin lying on the ground near her house. The eggs are usually five or six in numberfor a sitting, and of a faint bluish-white colour;they are oval in form, the shell being close-grained,smooth and lustreless. A set of six taken by I^amsay at Tyndarie in October, 1879, measures:—Length (A) o-6 x 0-43 inches; (B)o-6i X 0-45 inches; (C) o-66 x 0-42 inches; (D) 0-62 x 0-43 inches ; (E) o-66 x 0-46 inches ;(F) 0-65 X 0-45 inches. A set of five I took from a nest built in a tree in Mr. C. J. McMastersgarden at Wilga, near Moree, on the 9th November, 1897, measures :—Length (A) o-6 x 0-45inches; (B) o-6 x 0-45 inches; (C) 0-62 x 0-45 inches; (D) 0-63 x 0-45 inches ; (E) o-66 xo46 inches. Young birds resemble the adult female, but have the centre of the head greyish-brown, thechin and throat being of a clearer grey; remainder of the under surface white with a fulvous wash,. SITE OF CHESTNUT-EAKED FINCH STICTOPTERA. 279 which is more pronounced on tlie lower sides of the body and the under tail-coverts. Wingi95 inches. .\s has already been pointed out, the Chestnut-eared Finch breeds in Western New SouthWales in Spring and again in Autumn, and in some places all the year round. Numbers of thesebirds are trapped annually, and being a hardy species they thrive well and breed freely inconfinement, and rear their young without requiring any special attention beyond keepingthem well supplied with seed, water, a few bushy branches, and plenty of thin dried plant stemsand grasses to form their nests. In confinement their nests are not, as a rule, so well built as whenin a wild state. Several broods are reared in the same nest, the old birds frequently starting tore-line the nest before the young ones who have just left it are barely able to fly. They breed atall times of the year. In a
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