262 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



my stay here, as is proved by my killing young birds appa- 

 rently only a few days old, I did not succeed in finding the 

 nest ; and on inquiring of the natives, they could give me 

 110 information whatever respecting it or the period of 

 incubation." 



The sexes do not differ in colour or size. 



All the upper surface brownish olive; wings and tail 

 brown, margined with paler brown ; throat white ; all the 

 imder surface yellow ; irides blackish brown ; feet blackish 

 grey. 



Total length 3f inches ; bill f ; wing 2| ; tail 2^ •, tarsi \, 



Genus MONARCHA, Vigors and Horsfield, 



Several species of this genus occur in the Indian Islands, 

 and two in Australia. They are insectivorous birds, and pro- 

 cure their food by quietly hopping about among the branches 

 of the trees. 



The members of the present form and those of the genus 

 Jrses are very nearly allied. 



Sp. 152. MONARCHA CARINATA. 



Carinated Flycatcher. 



Muscipeta carinata, Swains. Zool. 111., 1st ser. pi. 147. 



Dn/mophila carinata, Temm, PI. Col. 418. f. 2. 



Monarcha carinata, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 255, 



Monarcha carinata, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. ii. pi. 95. 



This is a migratory bird in New South Wales, arriving in 

 spring and departing again in March and April, the Austra- 

 lian autumn. It gives a decided preference to thick brushy 

 forests, such as those at lilawarra and other similar districts 

 extending from the Hunter to Moreton Bay. It is also equally 

 abundant in the thick brushes which clothe the sloping moun- 

 tains of the interior. During the spring or pairing-time it 



