McGILF — Notes hy ike late Dr. Angove. 117 



Colltjriocincki yupventrifi i Kutons-vented Shrike Tlu.jslj) 

 — Wamiula Caiii]). Eyre's reiiiiisnla, lO/lO/llX)!). This bird is 

 very numerous both at the oaiu}) and at Cotlin's l>ay and the 

 Marble Ranges, at each of which locality I obtained specimens. 

 The song of this bird and that of Harmonic Shrike Thrush are 

 not the same, though very much alike and the difference dilllicult 

 to explain, but to (uie accustomed to the latter bird the diffe- 

 rence is distinct. 



Entomophllu Icncomclas ( I'ied Honey -eater i — December, 



1909. Clutch of two eggs taken at Stone Wall near ^lani'um; 

 nest composed of grasses with a feather or two, and placed 

 in a low bush. The eggs measured A)- x .05 in., ami wove 

 elongated oval and. if anything, slightly constricted towards 

 smaller end, ground color yellowish white, ,with sub-color mark- 

 ings very d'stinct. The season lias been peculiar in V.vai birds 

 like Ephthianura tricolor, Hah-ijoii ])i/ropliijgi(i. and this species 

 were found nesting at ^lannuni. whereas in usual years none 

 of these T>nt in an appearance. 



Xijcticorar calcdonlcufi (Night Heron i — February 1st, 



1910. At Teatree Swamps at back of Loveday Bay, near the 

 Coorong, this bird was nesting. The young were almost ready 

 to fly, so that l)ecembe'r would be about the proper time to 

 secui-e eggs. There was a big colony of them nesting (piite 

 low down in the teatrees in the s^^■amp. 



Eopfifiltria (/iihn-is (Grey-breasted Siiriki- Kobiii i — 

 Warunda Camjj, Eyre's I'eninsula, 10/10/19(19. We 



found this species fairly common at foot of the 

 Marble Range. A nest was placed on a horizontal 

 limb of a sugar gum, in a fork about fifteen feet 

 from the ground. Externally it was comjiosed of grasses 

 held together with cobweb and lined with dead leaves of native 

 broom. It was loosely built, and outside of nest are some pen- 

 dant pieces of bark hung on by cobweb. The nest is two inches 

 in diameter inside and If in. in depth. There are no 



feathers used in the nest. The clutch was two eggs, one of 

 which was incubated. They are light olive green in color, faintly 

 speckled at larger end with small ])inkish brown sivots. and 

 measured .85 in length by .05 in breadth. 



^ittella chrysoptera (Orange-winged Tree-runner (—Octo- 

 ber. 1887. Not uncommon in district (Teatree Gully) ; flies in 

 mobs, iis very restless, not remaining long in one tree, has a 

 short, jerky flight, twittering Avhilst flying. P.uilds a beautiful 

 nest in the fork of a sheoak. Nest is about two inches in dia- 

 mete:'. cup-shaped, and rather dee]). It is made of hair, fur, 

 and feathers, matted with cobwebs and fluff from some of the 



