. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . mulga, at a height of four feet from the ground, and containedthree fresh eggs, one of which Mr. Cowle unfortunately broke. Eggs two or three in number for a sitting, oval or elongate oval in form, the shell beingclose-grained, smooth, and slightly lustrous. Two eggs of the set from the above nest, andwhich are now in Mr. Keartlands collection, are of a creamy-buff ground colour, one specimenhaving a zone of indistinct creamy-brown markings on the larger end, the other being sparinglybut uniformly freckled over the shell with
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . mulga, at a height of four feet from the ground, and containedthree fresh eggs, one of which Mr. Cowle unfortunately broke. Eggs two or three in number for a sitting, oval or elongate oval in form, the shell beingclose-grained, smooth, and slightly lustrous. Two eggs of the set from the above nest, andwhich are now in Mr. Keartlands collection, are of a creamy-buff ground colour, one specimenhaving a zone of indistinct creamy-brown markings on the larger end, the other being sparinglybut uniformly freckled over the shell with dull purplish-brown, the markings becoming con-fluent and of a faint violet shade on the larger end, where a cap is formed. They measure:—(A) 0-57 X 0-42 inches; (B) 0-57 x 0-42 inches. Another egg, taken at Illamurta, by Mr. Cowle,from a nest built in a gum sapling measures o-6 x 0-47 inches. A set of two eggs in Mr. collection, also taken by Mr. Cowle in Central .Vustralia, measures:—(A) 0-58 x 0-42inches; (B) 058 x 0-43 inches. 192 /T3? Gerygone albigularis. WHITE-THROATED alhogularis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. albogularis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., Vol. II., pi. 97 (1848); id., Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I,, p. 26G ().Gerygone albigularis, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. -212 (1879). Adult malk—General colour above pale ashy-brown, washed 7vilh olive; lesser wing-covertslike the back, the median and greater coverts dark brown, externally edged with ashy-brown; quillsdark brotvn, externally edged with light ashy-brown ; upper tail-coverts pale ashy-broum; two centraltail feathers ashy-brown, with a large indistinct blackish-broion oval spot near the tip, the remainderblackish-brown with a brand white band on their inner webs near the centre of the feather and a spotof white at the tip, the apical portion of the outer web of the outermost feather white except at thetip; loral streak whit
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