204 BIRDS or AUSTRALIA. 



dark grey; line over the eye snow-white; under surface 

 greyish white, gradually passing into rufous on the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts, and indistinctly rayed with dark grey; 

 bill, feet, and irides black. 



The young male is brown where the male is black ; has the 

 wings not so conspicuously marked with white ; the under 

 surface washed with rufous and conspicuously rayed with 

 brown ; and the under tail-coverts deep rufous. 



Sp. 112. CAMPEPHAGA HUMERALIS, Gould, 



White-shouldered Campephaga. 



Ceblepyris humeralis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part v. p. 143. 

 Lalage humeralis, Cab. Mus. Hein., Theil i. p. 60. 

 Goo-mul-cul-long, Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western 

 Australia. 



Campephaga humeralis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. ii. 

 pi. 63. 



This bird occurs in considerable numbers throughout the 

 southern portion of Australia during the months of summer ; 

 it is strictly migratory, arriving in the month of September, 

 and having performed the task of reproduction departs 

 again northwards in the months of January and February. 

 It is a most animated, lively, and spirited bird, constantly 

 singing a loud and pretty song while actively engaged in 

 pursuit of insects, which it captures on the wing, among 

 the branches, or on the ground. It commences breeding 

 soon after its arrival, constructing a shallow round nest of 

 small pieces of bark, short dead twigs and grasses inter- 

 woven with fine vegetable fibres, cobwebs, white moss, &c., 

 and sometimes a few grasses and fine fibrous roots by way of 

 lining ; it is usually placed in the fork of a horizontal dead 

 branch of the Angoj^horcs and Eucalypti, and is not easily seen 

 from below. During the early part of the breeding-season the 

 male frequently chases the female from tree to tree, pouring 



