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1 Hall, Notes on Bird-Skins from N.W. Attstraiia. 59 



colour, blotched or streaked with brown, or brown marked with 

 tawny in about equal quantity. Between the lower portion of 

 the black runnp and the back there is a clear line dividing the 

 black from the brownish-yellow portion. The inner secondaries 

 are mostly brownish-yellow, as are the tips of all the coverts. 

 The tips of the secondaries are brownish, of the primaries 

 whitish. The tail is black with whitish tips. The rump is very 

 finely edged with pale brown. Centre under tail coverts broadly 

 edged with white. 



[Bill flesh colour, tip blackish-brown.] 



Specimen b presents quite a different appearance to a. It is 

 possibly weeks older, but it retains still a portion of the plumage 

 of the nestling. There is none of the pale rufous of a, the whole 

 of the upper surface to the rump being greyish-brown streaked 

 with dull white ; lores black ; chin blackish ; under surface to 

 under tail coverts greyish-fawn ; wing coverts edged with dull 

 white. 



[Bill light brown, tip blackish-brown.] 



[There appears to be a wide range in the nesting, for I found 

 eggs on 7th February, 1900, and 31st August of the same year. 

 On i6th January, 1901, I saw a nest being built. On ist 

 February I saw several broods of young ; some nests unlined : 

 external measurements, 5 x 4.5 x 3 inches ; internal, 2.5 x 2.5 

 X 1.5 inches. They are feeding largely upon something within 

 the blossoms of bauhinia trees. The flowers are infested with 

 insects. On 22/9/01 I observed a cluster within a rent in a tree. 

 They were roosting, and sheltering leeward in a high wind. This 

 is the first time I have seen this species in a bunch.] 



^y. Artamus personatus (Gould), Masked Wood-Swallow. 



Artamics personaitis, Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. ii., pi. 31 (1848) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xiii., p. 16 (1890). 



Adult male and female, 16/5/00, 22/5/00. 



[On 24/5/00 this species arrived in thousands, and as with 

 A. supercilwsus, noted, it seems as if they had arrived at or near 

 end of migratory course. There were a few before this date. 

 The next month in the following year (26/6/01) they also 

 appeared in thousands (Lower Livuringa).] 



78. Artamus minor (Vieillot), Little Wood-Swallow. 



Artamiis minor, Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. ii., pi. 28 (1848) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xiii., p. 20 (1890). 



Adult male and fledgling, ii/i/oo, 31/1/00. 



79. Artamus SUPERCILIOSUS (Gould), White-browed Wood- 



Swallow. 



Artamus nipercilwsus, Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. ii., p. 32 (1848) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xiii., p. 15 (1890). 



a and b. Adult male and female, 23/5/00. Derby. 

 c. Young, sex not marked. Breakaway, 25/12/00. 



