MYIAfiUA. 419 



markings of olive-brown and sepia-brown, with which are interniinjiiled a few small sub-surface 

 blotches of slaty-grey. Two sets taken at Marton, near Cooktown, Queensland, in December, 

 1904, measure respectively :— Length i (A) ra x o-.Sg inches; (B) ra x o-g inches; 2 (A) 

 ri8 X 0-87 inches; (P>) riS x o-88 inches. One egg of a set of two taken at Alstonville, 

 New South Wales, on the 20th November, igog, measures: — Len,^th 1-25 x o-86 inches. A 

 set in Mr. Thos. P. Austin's collection, also taken by INIr. Elvery at Alstonville, on the 5th 

 December, igog, measure :— Length (A) 1-22 x 0-85 inches; (H) 1-15 x 0-85 inches. Another 

 set in the same collection, taken near Cooktown, Queensland, on the 26th December, igog, 

 measure : — Length (A) 1-22 x 0-85 inches; (H) 1-20 x o-86 inches. 



November and the three following months is the usual breeding season of this species. 



Myiagra latirostris. 



HKi lAD-HILLED t-'IA'l'A'lVHER. 



Mi/iwjrn latirostris, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1.S40, p. 172; id., Bds. Au.str., fol. Vol. TL, pi. 92 

 (1848) ; id., Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 2."iG (1865) ; Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. 

 IV., p. 381 (1.S97) : id., Hand-1. l!ds,. Vol. III., p. 270 (I'.IOI). 



Adult male. — (reifral colour ahovi' Iraden-gn'ij ; Ifsser and iiifiliau upper iviiii/covfrls like the 

 back ; ijuills and tail-feathers dusky-hrown, the former externally edged and the latter externally 

 margined trith leaden-grey ; forehead and croivn of the head glos.'ig leaden-grey, rather duller on the 

 sides; chin, throat, fore-neck anil chest pale orange-rnfons : reinainiler of the nnder surface and 

 under tail-coverts dnll tvhite, the sides of the breast slightly washed nn/h orange-rufous. Total length 

 6 inches, nnng 3-S, tail '2-75, bill 0-.',.5, breadth at nostril O'S, tarsns 0-GS. 



Aimr.T FRMAf,!';, — Similar in plinmtge to thi' male, but eceryn^hrre much paler. 



1 ^islnhiitiflu. — North-western Australia, Northern Territory, Northern Queensland. 



/"piNlIli Broad-billed Flycatcher inhabits the mangrove-lined shores of North-western 

 -L Australia, the Northern Territory, and Northern Queensland. The late Mr. T. H. 

 Bowyer-Bower procured specimens near Derby, Mr. Dring procured the type on the north 

 coast, and Gilbert obtained e.xamples at Port Essington, while Mr. H. G. Barnard found it 

 breeding in the mangroves at Cape York in i8g6, and in 1912 Mr. W. McLennan, collecting in 

 that neighbourhood on behalf of Dr. W. Macgillivray, procured the nest here figured, as well as 

 the eggs, se\eral sets being taken. 



Dr. Macgillivray, in presenting a nest to the Trustees of the Australian Museum, also the 

 eggs on loan for description, accompanied it by the following notes:— "il/j/jf'w latirostris inhabits 

 the mangroves, finding its food amongst the leaves. It builds on a dead twig about two 



feet above high-water mark, over a channel in the mangroves. Mr. \V. McLennan reported : 



' On the Tgth January, igi2, I went down to the mangroves at Paira Bay and found a pair of 

 M. latirostris just starting a nest. A week later the nest was nicely finished, but did not contain 

 any eggs. Visited it again on the 30th January, but still no eggs, and thought the birds had 

 deserted it. I found a pair of these birds starting a nest about one hundred yards away. On 

 the 8th February the nest at Paira Bay contained one egg. On the following day went down 

 to the mangroves and took the nest of M. latirostris with two eggs.'" 



The nest figured on page 420, also that of the following species, the White-tailed Robin 

 (Pcecilodryas pnlveruhiila ) are reproduced from photographs taken by the Museum photographer 

 Mr. Charles Clutton. 



