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Official ©rgiin of the <^tistrala0iiiu ©niithcrUgists' §Enion. 



*• Bir^Js of a fcatber.' 



Vol. II.] 1ST OCTOBER, 1902. [Part 2. 



Notes on a Collection of Bird^Skins from the Fitzroy 

 River, Norths Western Australia. 



By Robert Hall. 



With Field Notes by the Collector, J. P. ROGERS. 



Part II. 

 49. ZOSTEROPS LUTEA (Gould), Yellow Silver-eye. 



Zosterops lutea, Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. iv., pi. 83 (1848) ; 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. ix., p. 183 (1884). 



Adult male, 1 8/3/01 ; adult female, 25/3/01 ; young male, 



25/3/01. 



The eggs and nest, found for the first time on 17th March, 

 1 90 1, have been described in the Victorian Naturalist.^ 



5c. Halcyon pyrrhopygius (Gould), Red-backed Kingfisher. 



Halcyon pyrrhopygia, Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. ii., pi. 22 (1848). 

 Halcyon pyrrhopygius^ Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xvii., 

 p. 258(1892).' 



a. Immature male, 1 9/1/00. 



b. Fledgling female, 4/1 i/oi. 



Fledgling. — It has just left the nest, and although bearing a 

 strong likeness to the adult, it differs in many respects. The 

 head is striped with brown and flushed with pale cinnamon ; 

 tail greenish rather than blue ; wings pale blue ; lesser coverts 

 edged with rufous ; primaries terminally marked with much 

 more black than in specimen a ; wash of rufous on collar ; band 

 of brownish crescentic markings across chest. 



[Irides brown ; bill brown, tip white, half lower mandible 

 dirty white ; legs and feet grey. J 



[I found the beginning of a nest (i/ii/oo) with the tunnel in 

 an ant-heap 4 inches. On the 4th the tunnel extended 12 

 inches inward. On the 7th I dug it out, and found four eggs. 

 The bird stayed in the whole time, and scarcely moved a 

 muscle when taken from the eggs. I put her quietly down. 

 This was owing to the great heat (120° F. in the shade). The 

 chamber was 6x6x7 inches.] 



* Vol. xviii., p. 32 (June, 1901). 



