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245* Flame-breasted Robin, P. phoenicea, S.Q., N.S.W., 



V., S.A., T., Bass St. Is. 



Mig. c. (winter) open, (summer) mt.-gullies 5.3 

 Crown, upper sooty-gray; small white forehead; white on 

 wing; outer-tail white; chin sooty-gray; under scarlet; 

 under base tail white; f.,* under brown; outer-tail 

 white; under reddish-gray. Insects. 



246 Pink-breasted Robin, P. rhodinogaster, V., S.A., T., 



Bass St. Is. Stat. v.r. deep forest, gullies 5.2 



Head, neck, back sooty-black; white spot on forehead; 

 breast, abdomen rose-pink; under base tail white; f., 

 upper brown; buff marks on wing; under gray; under 

 base tail white. Insects. "Tick-tick-tick;" like snap- 

 ping dead twig. 



247 Rose-breasted Robin, P. rosea, E.A. 



Insects. Stat. r. dense brushes, gullies 4.5 



Crown, throat, upper dark slate-gray; narrow white fore- 

 head; chest rich rose-red; under base tail white; outer- 

 tail white; f., forehead buff; upper grayish-brown. 

 248*Red-capped Robin, Redhead (e), P. goodenovii, S.Q., 

 N.S.W., V., S.A., C.A., W.A. 



Nom. r. open inland scrubs 4.7 

 Crown, breast scarlet; upper, neck black; white stripe on 

 wing; abdomen, under tail white; f.,* dark-brown 

 upper; forehead tinged reddish; throat, breast faintly 

 tinged red. Insects. 

 249 Hooded Robin (Black and White, Black, Pied), P. 

 bicolor, S.Q., N.S.W., V., S.A., W.A., N.W.A. 



Stat. r. open, forest 6.5 

 Head, upper, throat black; patch on wing, abdomen, 

 under base tail, outer- tail white; f., brownish-gray in- 

 stead of black. Insects. 



known to all. Who does not know and admire the plucky, 

 though fussy Black and White Pantail (Willie Wagtail), as it 

 drives a cat or a dog away from the vicinity of its nest, or as it 

 waits impatiently about the mouth of a grazing cow or horse, or 

 as it expresses its opinion of itself in the melodious "sweet, pretty 

 creature," heard even late on moonlight nights? The friendly 

 White-shafted Fantail is almost as well known, as it flits about a 

 camp or catches flies near some water-course. 



At the Summer School, a Fantail spent some time each day 

 in the dining-tent. The beautiful Rufous Fantail is just as tame, 

 but is not quite so common. The nests of the White-shafted and 

 Rufous Fantails are things of beauty. The long wine-glass stem 

 is said by some to serve to drain the water away down from the 

 nest, or as a means of carrying the eye down from the nest itself, 

 so that it is seldom seen, or as a balance, so that the nest is not 

 tilted too far in windy weather. 



The Scissors Grinder, or Restless Flycatcher, is very much like 

 a Black and White Fantail, but the throat is white, while that 



