44 INSECTI VORO US BIRDS 



(M. bicolor) you will observe this species appears to have 

 been born twice. The error has since been rectified. The 

 Hooded Eobin is an active insect-hunter, darting from 

 bush to bush in search of coleopterous and other insects or 

 their larvse. 



yest. — Cup-shaped, composed of bark and lined witli fine 

 grasses. It has the general appearance of a robin's nest, 

 but is not so finely built as the most of them, and is placed 

 nearer the ground. 



£Jggs. — Three to a sitting, sometimes two. The ground 

 colour is apple-green without spots, or paler green without 

 spots. Length, 75 inch; breadth, 0-6 inch. 



YELLOW BREASTED SHRIKE- 

 ROBIN 



(Yellow Robin), 



Eopsaltria aiistralis, Lath. 



E-op-sal'tri-ii as-tra-lis. 

 Eos, dawn ; psaltria, a female harper ; andralis, southern. 



EopSALTEiA AUSTRALis, Goiild, " Birds of Australia," fol., vol. iii., 

 pi. 11. 



Geographical Distribution. — Areas 3, 4. 



Key to the Species.— Abdomen bright yellow ; only upper throat 

 whitish ; upper surface greyish ; rump pale yellow ; bill at 

 nostrils broader than high, culmen 0*7 inch. 



The home of this strangely-coloured robin is in the moist 

 densely timbered lands, principally of the eastern portion 

 of our colony. In the drier and western half there is a 



