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insects. The place was frequently visited afterwards, but no 

 other example was seen. 



Since Mr. Macgiilivray's visit to Cape York other examples 

 have been procured in that locality. 



Crown of the head, lores, ear-coverts, wings, and tail black ; 

 wing-coverts tipped with white ; secondaries margined with 

 white ; outer tail-feathers margined on the apical portion of 

 the external web and largely tipped with white, the white 

 becoming less and less, until only a shght trace of it is found 

 on the central feathers ; back olive-black ; throat white ; line 

 from the nostrils over each eye and the breast, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts bright yellow 3 bill black; feet bluish 

 black. 



Total length 5 inches ; bill f ; wing 2 ; tail 2^ ; tarsi \. 



Genus MICRCECA, Gould. 



Three species of this form inhabit Australia, to which 

 country they are probably confined. 



Sp. 149. MICRCECA EASCINANS. 



Brown Flycatcher. 



Loxia fascinans, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xlvi. 



Fascinating Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 197. 



Myiagra macroptera, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 254. 



Micrceca macroptera, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part viii. p. 172. 



Sylvia leucophcea, Lath. 



Broiun Flycatcher of the Colonists. 



Micrceca macroptera, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. ii. pi. 93. 



This bird is generally dispersed over the colonies of New 

 South Wales and South Australia, where it inhabits nearly 

 every kind of situation, . from the open forest lands of the 

 interior to the brushes of thickly-grown trees near the sea- 

 coast, shrubs not a yard high and the branches of the 



