from JVestern Australia. 141 



of year, the bushes being from two to four feet high. 

 The call of the bird is weird, and is very similar to that of 

 Megalurus gramineus. 



32. AcANTHORHYNCHUs suPERCiLiosus. White- browed 

 Spine-bill. (Hall's Key, p. 37.) 



A. Ad. S- 2.10.99. Denmark. 



B. Imm. ?. 26.9.99. ^ 



C. Young. 28.9.99. [■ Tor Bay, Albany. 



D. Fledgling. 28.9.99.) 



The principal fact of interest that I have to re})ort con- 

 cerning this bird is that I found several incubating females 

 which shewed a plumage far from mature. 



The architecture of two of the nests, though less splendid, 

 resembled that of the eastern Yellow-breasted Shrike-Robin 

 {Eopsaltria australis). Being placed between branching 

 twigs and not pendent, the style was far from the normal. 

 The structure, though symmetrical, was coarse, and the edge 

 of the bowl was wide ; it was deeper than bioad and was 

 lined with feathers. All the nests were cup-sliaped. One 

 measured; whole diameter 2*5 inches, whole depth 2, depth 

 of bowl 1'5. While this particular fabric was placed 

 some six feet from the ground in a Banksia, two others 

 were quite eighteen feet from it. In one nest was a single 

 nude young bird and in another an egg on the point of 

 hatching (30.9.99), while in a third found near Albany was 

 a very young nestling. It would seem that, according to 

 my limited observations, the number of eggs is more often 

 one than two. 



33. ZosTKROPs GouLDi. Grcen-backcd Silver-eye. (Hall's 

 Key, p. 38.) 



A. Ad. sk. Tor Bay, Albany. 29.9.99. 



B. Ad. sk. Geraldton. 13.10.99. 



C. Ad. sk. Wallabi Group, Abrolhos. 20.10.99. 



D. Young. Geraldton. 13.10.99. 



The sides of the body in all the above skins are only a 

 shade moie ashen than the breast. 



Young. Specimen D. — Although having just left the uest 



