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APPENDIX. 



The nest ib a small, deep, cup-shaped structure, sHghtly contracted at the rim, built at the 

 juncture of a forl<ed brancli, and is formed throuf^liout of thin strips and scales of barl< thickly 

 coated externally with cobweb, to which is attached, also on the rim, small pieces of greenish- 

 white lichen and a few scales 'of barl;, the inner cup being sparingly lined at the bottom with a 

 few pieces of fine brown and black wire-like libra ; externally it measures two inches in diameter 

 by two inches in depth, the inner cup measuring one inch and three-quarters in diameter by one 

 inch and three-eighths in depth. 



The eggs are two in number for a sitting, oval in form, the shell being close-grained, smooth 

 and slightly lustrous ; they are of a dull white ground colour, with a band around the larger end 



of wood-brown and purplish: 

 brown dots and spots, inter- 

 mingled with similar under- 

 lying markings of dull violet 

 and purplish-grey, a few small 

 dots and spots of the same 

 line being sparingly sprinkled 

 o\er the remainder of the 

 shell. A set of two in Dr. 

 \V. Macgillivray's collection, 

 taken by Mr. W. McLennan 

 on the gth of February, 1912, 

 measures: — Length (A) 071 

 X 0-56 inches; (B) 072 x 

 0'56 inches. The eggs of this 

 species closely resemble those 



NEST OF IlKOAD-llILLKD FLYCATCHER. • of Myillflfa COIlcilllia. 





Poecilodryas pulverulenta. 



WUITE-TAILED ROBIN. 



J/yio/ex/fis pulveruleti/us, Bonap. (ex Miill. Mus. Lugd.) Oonsp. Avium, Tom. I., p. 3.58 (IS50). 



Eoiisfdl.ria leucura, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol., Suppl. pi. IS (1869). 



EopsaUria pulvi-ruletUa, Uadow, Cat. IkI.s. Brit. Mu.s., Vol. VIII., p. 180 (1883). 



Pi'cilodri/as jinlrernh'iita, Salvacl., Oni. Pap. et Moluce., Part 2, p. 88 (1881); Sharpp, Hand-1. 

 Bds., Vol. III., p. 234 (1901). 



Adult male. — Genrral colour abovp ilnll li>aden-ijrf'ij, llie lip.ad sliylil! y sliwh-d ivifh brotvn : dipper 

 tail-coverts blackiah ; taU-fcalhfrs blackisli-hroivn, all biU thf. central jiair ?rit/i. tlie basal lialf irltile : 

 ivings brown, ivilh a dusky was/i, whicli is more pro iioiiucp.d on the lesser tviuy-coverts ; lores, a spot 

 iiifroiit and a line of fealliers eneircliny the eye black ; chin, throat, all the under surface and under 

 tail-coverts white, the fore-neck and npper breast stronyly ivashed ivitJb dull leaden-grey ; "bill black ; 

 legs and feet black; iris />/-(«/-?t '' (Gibson). Tot(d. length .rS inches, wing -J-Jo, tail ^S, bill O'o, 

 tarsus 0'9. 



Adult female. — Si))iilar in plnmage to the male. 



Distribution. — Northern Territory, Northern Queensland. 



^^HE White-tailed Robin is an inhabitant of the extreme northern portions of the Australian 

 continent, being found in the Northern Territory and Cape York Peninsula, its 

 range extending to New Guinea and the Aru Islands. Gould thus refers to it in iS6g in the 



