62 Campbell, Additions to ' H. L. White Collection.'' [,sf'"oct. 



is exceedingly variable both in summer and winter plumage. The 

 above quartet generally may be regarded as typical. The two 

 males have cinnamon-coloured crowns, which part in the females 

 is dark striped. Dr. Sharpe regards the four species described 

 and figured by Gould as referable to the one species — exilis. 

 Grass-Warblers were numerous on Moa, and many nests were 

 observed. 



Megalurus galactotes, Temminck. Tawny Grass-Bird. 

 Dulciornis alisteri dulciei. 



One (?. 3 ??. Seemingly identical with specimens procured 

 in Northern Territory and North-West Austraha. The specie? 

 shows a preference for coastal regions and islands adjacent thereto. 

 This is the first record of the bird being found in the locality of 

 Cape York. Mr. H. G. Barnard and I, when at Cardwell, 1916, 

 flushed this species on the flats of long grass among the timber 

 and obtained a specimen. (See former remarks, Emu, xvii., p. 27.) 

 It is probable that the same species frequents New Guinea. 

 *Artamus leucopygialis, Gould. White-rumped Wood-Swallow. 

 A. leiicorhync/ius leucopygialis. 



One 3. Beautifully typical of the Austrahan and New Guinea 

 birds. Noted several times — once hawking for insects with Fairy 

 Martins and Pratincoles over a burning tract of country. 

 *Colluricincla parvissima, Gould. AlUed Rufous Shrike-Thrush. 

 Caleya megarhyncha griseata. 



One c?, I ?• Evidently a good northern race of rufigastcr, being 

 smaller, lighter-coloured (buffy-brown), and not so striped on 

 the breast as the more southern form. The male is larger (wing, 

 98 mm.) and browner (russet) on the secondaries and wing coverts 

 than the female (wing, 93 mm.) — characteristic sexual distinc- 

 tions, no doubt. Caleya Megarhyncha (Quoy et Gaimard, " Voy. 

 I'Astrol., Zool.," i., p. 172, pi. 3), cited by Mr. Mathews, has a dark- 

 coloured (warm sepia) upper surface, likewise a New Guinea speci- 

 men in the National Museum, with its oUve-brown back, and is 

 therefore unhke parvissima. Again, Mr. Mathews gives priority 

 to Gray's two names, gouldi and griseata, over parvissima. 

 i\ccording to a good Austrahan authority, the late Dr. E. P. 

 Ramsay, both Gray's names arc doubtful as to species.* That 

 two distinct species should exist on islands so close to each other 

 (and to the mainland) as Barnard Islands and Dunk Island — re- 

 spectively the supposed habitats for gouldi and griseata — is 

 extremely doubtful. Both names should be " decently forgotten." 



This small Shrike-Thrush is exceedingly common on Moa 

 Island, where it breeds. - 



[14/12/19. — My attention was attracted to a minute Shrike- 

 Thrush which was fluttering round and round a trunk of a man- 

 grove in chase of something, which a few seconds later fell with a 

 splash into the water. The bird followed, fluttering above it. I 

 went over to investigate ; saw a small wood-adder, and got it.] 



* "Tab. List Austr. Birds " (1888), p. 35. 



