I regret that circumstances did not admit of my acquiring a perfect knowledge of the nidification of this very singular bird; I never found the nest but once, and this unfortunately was after the breeding-season was over; but all those of whom I made inquiries respecting it, agreed in assuring me that it is either placed on the ledge of a projecting rock, at the base of a tree, or on the top of a stump, but always near the ground; and a cedar cutter whom I met in the brushes informed me that he had once found a nest, which, to use his own expression, was “built like that of a magpie,” adding that it contained but one egg, and that upon his visiting the nest again some time afterwards he found in it a newly-hatched young, which was helpless and destitute of the power of vision. The natives state that the eggs are two in number, of a light colour, freckled with spots of red. The nest seen by myself, and to which my attention was drawn by my black companion Natty, was placed on the prominent point of a rock, in a situation quite secluded from observation behind, but affording the bird a commanding view and easy retreat in front; it was deep and shaped like a basin, and had the appearance of having been roofed; was of a large size, formed outwardly of sticks, and lined with the inner bark of trees and fibrous roots. General plumage brown; the secondary wing-feathers nearest the body, and the outer webs of the remainder rich rufous brown; upper tail-coverts tinged with rufous; chin and front of the throat rufous, much richer during the breeding-season; all the under surface brownish ash-colour, becoming paler on the vent; upper surface of the tail blackish brown; under surface silvery grey, becoming very dark on the external web of the outer feather; the inner webs of these feathers fine rufous, crossed by numerous bands, which at first appear of a darker tint, but on close inspection prove to be perfectly transparent; the margin of the inner web and tips black; bill and nostrils black; irides blackish brown; bare space round the eye blackish lead-colour; legs and feet black, the scales mealy. The female differs in wanting the singularly formed tail, and in having the bare space round the eye less extensive and less brilliantly coloured. The Plate represents the two sexes, about half the natural size. [Illustration: PSOPHODES CREPITANS: _Vig. & Horsf._ _J. & E. Gould del^t._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] PSOPHODES CREPITANS, _Vig. & Horsf._ Coach-whip Bird. _Muscicapa crepitans_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. li. _Coach-whip Flycatcher_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 222. _Coach-whip Honey-eater_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 187. _Psophodes crepitans_, Vig. & Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 329. _Djou_, Aborigines of New South Wales.