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Description of a New Microeca from Northern 

 Australia. 



By a. J. Campbell. 



Mr. D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., has been good enough to hand me 

 for description a Micrceca from the Northern Territory, for- 

 warded by one of his collectors, which appears to be new, 

 differing from the other familiar brown and white species by its 

 entirely brownish tail and by its much stouter bill. On account 

 of the former characteristic I would suggest the name M. brnn- 

 neicaiida, and in the vernacular Brown-tailed Flycatcher. 



Description. — Whole of the upper surface olive-brown ; under 

 surface (including under tail coverts) white, slightly buffy about 

 the throat and breast. There are some light-coloured facial 

 markings, but the skin (which is also unsexed) is too much 

 damaged to define them. Bill, feet, and eyes dark. Dimensions 

 in inches : — Total length, 4.5 inches ; bill, .41 ; wing, 2.8 ; tail, 

 2.2 ; tarsus, .7. 



A nest and ^gg (the latter being distinguished from those of 

 the other known members of the genus by its lighter colouring) 

 will be described by Mr. Le Souef, together with other northern 

 eggs, in this issue. 



Descriptions of Birds^eggs from the Port Darwin 

 District, Northern Australia. 



By D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., &c. 



Part L 



The eggs which form the subject of this paper have been 

 collected for me by three different collectors, and skins of 

 the parent birds sent to identify them by. Most have been 

 described before, but chiefly from more southern districts, and 

 it is interesting to compare the measurements with those of the 

 same birds that breed in Southern Australia, for, as is well 

 known, the further north certain birds range the smaller are 

 their eggs, 



ASTUR NOV^-HOLLANDIyE, sub-species LEUCOSOMUS (Lesser 

 White Hawk). 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus., vol. i., p. 119. 

 The nest of this bird was found on 15th May, and it con- 

 tained one fresh ^gg, the full clutch evidently not having been 

 laid ; it is without gloss and the inside lining green ; the colour 

 is bluish-white and sparingly marked over, except on the apex, 

 where markings are plentiful, with rather small brown irregular 

 spots, those under the surface being pale grey. The egg 

 measures 1.84 x 1.40 inches. 



