It appears, also, from Mr. Gould’s late most interesting discoveries regarding the habits of the _Talegalla Lathami_, (an Australian bird, one of the Rasores,) that several females lay in one nest, and that the eggs are hatched by the heat engendered by a mass of decaying vegetable matter. It appears that the males assist the females in scratching together the leaves and earth, of which the great conical mound or nest is composed. Footnote 27: Burchell’s Travels, vol. i. p. 280. Footnote 28: Azara, vol. iv. p. 173. Footnote 29: Lichtenstein, however, (Travels, vol. ii. p. 25.) states, that the hens begin to sit when ten or twelve eggs are laid, and that they afterwards continue laying. He affirms that by day the hens take turns in sitting, but that the cock sits all night. Footnote 30: The naturalists in Lutke’s voyage, vol. iii. p. 255, seem to consider a gull, which they obtained at Concepcion, as the _Larus Franklinii_ of North America. Footnote 31: I am much indebted to Mr. Eyton for these observations, which greatly add to the value of the previous descriptions. Footnote 32: Since the above was in type, I have had, through the kindness of Mr. Gould, an opportunity of examining _Menura lyra_, and find my former supposition to be correct; but neither of these genera can be placed among the gallinaceous birds where the latter bird has been arranged by some authors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES Page Changed from Changed to 130 albis, illis obscure, his plane albis, illis obscure, bis plane grisescenti fusco fasciatis; grisescenti fusco fasciatis; rostri rubescenti fusco rostri rubescenti fusco ● Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. ● Used numbers for footnotes, placing them all at the end of the last chapter. ● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. ● Enclosed blackletter font in =equals=. ● The caret (^) serves as a superscript indicator, applicable to individual characters (like 2^d) and even entire phrases (like 1^{st}).