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[The singular soft note of this little Pardalote was first heard 

 in the Eucalypts on the margin of a creek near our camel dep6t 

 during August, and Mr. ,C. F. Wells soon procured a nice 

 specimen in full plumage. Others were frequently shot, but 

 tliey were not so brilliant in colour as those I obtained in 

 Central Australia in 1894-.] 



No. 22. Lalage tricolor (White-shouldered Caterpillar-eater). 



Cehlepyris tricolor, Swains., Zool. Journ., vol. I., p. 467 (1825). 



Campephaga humf^rahs, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., vol. II., pi. 

 63 (1848); Sturt, Exped. Centr. Austr., vol. IL, App., p. 23 

 (1849); Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., vol. I., 2iid series, 

 p. 1,088 (1886). 



Lalaye tricolor, North, Nests and Eggs Aust. Bds., p 78 

 (1889); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. IV., p. 92 (1879). 



One adult male. Camp about five miles from the junction of 

 the Fitzroy and Margaret Rivers. This is a migratory species, 

 visiting New South Wales about the end of September, and 

 departing again in February. It is found in most parts of the 

 Australian Continent. 



[Whilst near Lake Way, in J uly, a number of young birds of 

 this species were seen, and as the season progressed we found the 

 immature males exchanging their modest brown garb for the 

 bright black-and-white of the adult male. Near the Fitzroy River 

 during February they were breeding, and several clutches of eggs 

 taken, which presented considerable variation in colour, somebeing 

 heavily blotched with red on a pale-green ground, whilst others 

 were streaked and blotched with dark-brown on a rich-green 

 ground. The nests, which were small for the size of the birds, 

 were built of fine grass, moss, cobwebs, and scraps of bark in the 

 horizontal forks of the Eucalypt- and Bauhinia-trees, in such a 

 manner as to make their discovery somewhat difficult. They 

 were so shallow that the least shake dislodged the eggs.] 



No. 23. CoLLYRiociNCLA BRUNNEA (Brown Shrike-Thrush). 



Colluricincla hrunnea, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1840, p. 164; 

 id., Bds. Austr., fol., vol. IL, pi. 76(1848); Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.W., vol. IL, 2nd series, p. 167 (1887) ; North, Nests 

 and Eggs Austr. Bds., p. 81 (1889). 



One adult male only. Camp about five miles from the junction 

 of the Fitzroy and Margaret Rivers. This species agrees with 

 Gould's figure and description of this species. In the Catalogue 

 of Birds in the British Museum, Dr. Sharpe describes the 

 adult as having a distinct white eyebrow, like C. snperciliosa, 

 Masters, which Dr. Sharpe includes as a synonym of C. brunnea. 

 None of our adult males from Port Essington and Derby, in the 



