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to the beach, and made a search tlirou^h tlie outei fringe ; to my surprise I tlushed tiie Kobin 

 from her nest in a small thick clump of mangroves about two hundred yards from where I first 

 saw the l)irds. The nest was placed in a dead fork ten feet from the ground, and contained two 

 eggs; unfortunately they were on the point of hatching, so I left them.'" 



The nest is a shallow cup-shaped structure, built at the junction of an oblique three-proug 

 forlced branch, and is formed of narrow strips of very thin bark and bark fibre, coated externally 

 with a thin network of spider's web, to which is attached pendant scales of bark and pieces of 

 dull greenish-white lichen, the inside being lined with thin wire-like fibre ; externally it measures 

 two inches and three quarters in depth, and the inner cup two inches in diameter by barely one 

 inch in depth. 



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

 grained, smooth and lustrous. In ground colour they vary from green and pale yellowish-green 

 to a faint warm olive-brown, over which is distributed dots, spots and small irregular-shaped 

 blotches of chestnut-red, faint purplish-red, or reddish-brown, and a few similar nearly obsolete 

 underlying markings of purplish or bluish-grey; as a rule the markings are in the form of a 

 band, near the middle or on the larger end of the egg, many of them being penumbral, while 

 others are sparingly spotted over the remainder of the shell. A set of two taken by Mr. W. 

 McLennan at Paira, near Cape York, Northern Queensland, on the gth February, 1912, 

 measures: — Length (A) 075 x o-6 inches; (6)0-74 ^ o-6 inches. A set of two taken on the 

 29th February, 1912, measures: — Length (A) 072 x o-h-] inches; (B) 076 x 0-62 inches. 

 Another set of two taken on the 4th March, 1913, measures: — Length (A) 076 x o-6 inches; 

 (B) 078 x o'6i inches. 



Pcecilodryas albigularis. 



WHITE-THriOATED KMlilN, 

 I'dciloilryas l,'nc(i/>!< aHiiijularU, Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XIV., p. 459 (l',)07). 



Adult fp;valk. — (Jmn'ral cd/onr above olire-greeit : ii/i/ifr trine/ cotvr/a like the hack : primary 

 coi'erts dark brmva : ijnilU anil tail fentliera ihirk liroicn, e.'ieniat/i/ maryitnil trith dull olireyreeti ; 

 sides 0/ forehead, hrea, a narrow line 0/ feathers eitcircliiKj t!ie eye, cheeks, chin and iij)per throat pure 

 ivhite ; centre of forehead, sincipiil, sides of cron-u, ear-corerts and sides of npper neck black, almost 

 ineetiny in the centre of the tJiroal, and piissiny into diiski/bro/i'n on the centre of the croicu of liead ; 

 lower throat an,d all the nttder surface and itiid'-r tail-coverts briyht yelloic, trashed irith olive-yreen 

 on the lotcer throat, fore-neck and sides of breast : "bill black, base of lower mandible transparent 

 white; leys and feet pide yellow ; iris greyish-brown" (McLennan). Total lenyth .'/S inches, iviny 

 2-7o, tail 2, bill O'-'i, tarsus 75. 



Dislribntion. — North-eastern ( )ueensland. 



^^HE White-throated Kobin is restricted to North-eastern Queensland. Judging from a 

 single specimen, the adult female described above, which accompanied the nest and eggs 

 forwarded by Dr. W. Macgillivray, the present species may easily be distinguished from the 

 typ\ca\ iorm of Pariliulrvits IcHiops, Salvador!, inhabiting New Guinea. Not only is the upper 

 throat as well as the chin white, but there is a greater extent of black on the sides of the upper 

 neck, which almost meets on the centre of the throat. Respecting it Dr. Macgillivray sends 

 the following notes : — " Pcecilodryas <dbigiilai'!s is an uncommon bird at Cape York, only one pair 

 being observed by Mr. McLennan during his stay there. These were on several occasions 

 noted by Mr. McLennan in the big scrub about four and a half miles from Locherbie; it was 

 not until ist December, 1911, that he found their nest. It was placed in a Lawyer \'ine about 

 ten feet from the ground, and contained two eggs. He sat down some distance away, and 



