64 INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS 



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picture to picture, along the lighter ornaments, and up to 

 and along the ceiling. These birds seem to go on voyages 

 of discovery at this time of the year, because the same 

 morning I also saw one near the shipping at Williamstown, 

 and heard of a second one being at Ascot Vale. The little 

 bird of the dining hall has plenty of flies to catch, and if 

 true to its name will do well for a time ; but the trees in the 

 oleographs are a city delusion. Fresh from the country, it 

 has the coat of golden yellow, spruce and bright, and many 

 admirers. Next week the carbonized dust will change 

 the brilliancy of the youth — for such he must surely be, to 

 come to the centre of a town. The sparrows will chirp on 

 as usual, but he, poor fellow, will probably get as far as the 

 Fitzroy Gardens, and there spend a semi-country life. 

 These birds, strange to the city, arrive by following the 

 little creeklets until they strike the beaches, and then along 

 the beaches, following every little clump of private garden 

 trees, till they are landed in the city proper. 



Occupying similar country we have two species that are 

 much rarer, Myiagra rubecula, Lath., Leaden Fly-catcher, 

 and M. nitida, Gld., Satin Fly-catcher, while a third is 

 comparatively even more rare, the Spectacled Fly-catcher, 

 Piezorhynchus gouldi, Gld. This latter is seen only in the 

 extreme east. 



Nest. — Similar to E, albiscajm above, and, judging by one 

 specimen alone, it is a little larger. 



Bggs. — Two or three to a clutch ; ground colour cream ; 

 the faint spots form a zone of pale brown and lilac-brown. 

 Length, 0*75 inch ; breadth, 0-55 inch. 



