Ii;0 NESTS AA'D EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



(Queensland), where a pair of birds, by their antics, led me to believe 

 they had a nest close by, but without success. Mr. Le Souef, when 

 afterwards in the same locality, likewise failed, but only partially, 

 however, for a nest and eggs found 25th October, 1892, near the Acacia 

 Vale Niu'series (GulUver's), followed him home. They are the specimens 

 from which my descriptions are taken. 



However, the first eggs, which Dr. Ramsay described in 1886, were 

 taken, together with the birds, eighteen years previously by Mr. Edward 

 Spalding, when collecting iu the Rockingham Bay district. 



Gilbert discovered the White-browed Robin in the neighbourhood of 

 the Bm-dekin, during the progress of Lcichhardt's expedition from Moreton 

 Bay to Port Essington. The bird appears to possess a rather local 

 habitat, in Northern Queensland, including the Gulf of Cai-pentaria 

 district ; being represented in the west by its near relative, the 

 Buff-sided Robin (P. cerviniventris). 



122. — ^ PCKCILODRYAS CERVINIVENTRIS, Gould. — (171) 



BUFF-SIDED ROBIN. 



Figure. — Gould; Birds of Australia, fol , supp., pi. 15. 

 Reference. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iv., p. 242, 



Geographical Distribution. — North-west Australia and Northern Terri- 

 tory. 



Nest and Eggs. — Undescribed. 



Observations. — The Buff-sided Robin was one of the ornithological 

 discoveiies of the Gregory Exploring Expedition to North-west Australia, 

 1861, the original skin having been secured by Mr. J. R. Elsey on the 

 Victoria River, where he was for some time encamped in charge of a 

 portion of the Expedition. 



Mr. G. A. Kcartland, of the Calvert Expedition (1896-7), obtained 

 one skin (an adult male). Although several birds were shot they quickly 

 decomposed owing to the great heat. The birds were obsei-ved iu the 

 dense mangrove scrub on the margin of the Fitzroy River, where their 

 loud notes betrayed their presence. On the 1st January a pair of young 

 ones, which had apparently just left the uest, was seen being fed by the 

 parents. 



123. PCECILODRYAS CAPITO, Gould. — (178) 



LARGE-HEADED ROBIN. 



Figure. — Gould; Birds of Australia, fol., supp , pi. 17. 

 Reference. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iv., p. 245. 

 Previous Desert ftion of Eggs. — North: Proc. Linn. See, N.S. Wales, 

 vol. iii., 2nd ser., p. 146 (1888). 



Geographical Dislributiun. — Queensland and New South Wales. 



