adjacent islands in every possible variety of situation. Its native name is Mur:re-a-rmo. It possesses a
very loud and distinct note, unlike that of every other bird I have yet heard; the sound most commonly
uttered is a loud clear whistle terminating in a singular guttural harsh catch, but in the cool o f the evening,
when perched on and sheltered in the thick foliage of one of the topmost branches o f a Eucalyptus, it pours
forth a regular succession of very pleasing notes.
A nest taken on the 4th of December contained two nearly hatched eg g s; it was attached by the rim to
a drooping branch of the swamp Melaleuca, about five feet from the ground; was very deep and large,
and formed o f very narrow strips of the paper bark mixed with a few small twigs, the bottom of the interior
lined with very fine wiry twigs.
The eggs, which are large for the size of the bird, are of a beautiful bluish white, spariugly spotted all
over with deep umber-brown and bluish-grey, the latter appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell;
their medium length is one inch and three lines long by eleven lines broad.
The sexes when fully adult differ so little in colour that they can scarcely be distinguished; the male is
however o f a more uniform tint about the head, neck and throat, and has the yellowish olive o f the upper
surface o f a deeper tint than the female.
Head and all the upper surface yellowish olive; wings and tail-feathers dark brown ; the outer webs of
the coverts and secondaries grey, margined and broadly tipped with w h it e a ll but the two centre tail-
feathers with a large oval-shaped spot of white on the inner, and the extremity o f the outer web white, the
white mark gradually increasing in size as the feathers recede from the centre until it becomes an inch long
on the external one; under surface white, washed with olive-yellow on the sides of: the chest, each feather
with an elongated pear-shaped mark o f black down the centre; bill dull flesh-red; i rides scarlet; feet lead-
colour.
The young bird during the first year has the bill blackish brown instead o f dull flesh-red; the upper
surface olive-brown, each feather strongly streaked down the centre with dark brown; . wings brown'; under
surface of the shoulder and all the wing-featbers except the primaries margined with sandy red; the black
streaks on the breast more decided, and the white spot at the tip o f the lateral tail-feathers much smaller
than in the adult.
The figures represent the two sexes o f the natural size on a plant gathered in the brushes of New South
Wales, the name of which I have not been able to ascertain.