THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 79 



On account of the sombre tail, the general unassuming 

 appearance, and by having the least conspicuous marking of any 

 specimens of its genus, I propose for it the name of Pseudo- 

 gerygone tenebrosa, the Dusky Fly-eater, and append detailed 

 descriptions of the male and female. 



PsEUDOGERYGONE TENEBROSA, sp. nov., Dusky Fly-cater. 



3Iale. — General colour above, pale rufous-brown, rather ashy- 

 brown on the head and pale rufous on the rump and upper tail 

 coverts ; tail uniform ashy-brown, with twelve almost obsolete bars 

 of a darker shade across each of the central feathers ; wing 

 chocolate-brown, excepting the two outer primaries, which are 

 edged with white ; secondaries bordered with tawny-white; under 

 wing coverts white, and inner webs of secondaries ; lores, eye- 

 brows, and narrow ring round each eye, white ; ear coverts pale 

 reddish-brown ; throat and under surface white, washed with pale 

 yellowish-brown ; fianks yellowish-brown ; under tail coverts 

 white ; bill, legs, and feet black ; irides white. Dimensions. — 

 Length (skin), 4.75 inches; wing, 2.2 inches; tarsus, 0.7 inch; 

 culmen, 0.4 inch. 



Female. — Nearly full adult. In general agreement with the 

 male; bill brownish-black, with a pale creamy line along keel of 

 lower mandible ; edges to primaries creamy-white ; legs and feet 

 black. Dimensions. — Length, 4.4 inches ; wing, 2.05 inches ; 

 tarsus, 0.7 inch; culmen, 0.4 inch. 



Habitat. — Fitzroy River, North-West Australia. 



The key to the species may be laid down as follows : — " Tail 

 uniform ashy-brown ; lores and eyebrows creamy white ; throat 

 whitish, like rest of under surface, and all lightly washed with 

 pale yellowish-brown, the flanks being a shade darker; bill entirely 

 black." 



NEW NESTS AND EGGS. 

 By Robert Hall. 



{Bead before the Field Naturalists^ Clubof Victoria, I2th August, 1901.) 



Among other specimens collected on the Fitzroy River, North- 

 VVest Australia, by my friend Mr. J. P. Rogers, were the nests of 

 the Yellow-tinted Honey-eater, Ptilotis Jiavescens, Gould, and 

 the Rufous Bush-Lark, Mirafra woodwardi, Milligan, as well as 

 the eggs of the latter bird. 



Skins of the birds were forwarded with the nests in order that 

 the identification might be certain, and as no descri[)tions of the 

 nests have yet been published, I take this opportunity of record- 

 ins; them. 



