Vol. XII. 



1913 



j Stray Featheys. IQI 



flavescens has never been recorded as a foster-parent of any 

 Cuckoo) ; White-throated Honey-eater {Melithrephts alhigitlaris) 

 as foster-parent of Pallid Cuckoo [Cucttlus pallidus) — this is probably 

 a new foster-parent of the Pallid Cuckoo ; while the Little Friar- 

 Bird [Philemon sordidus) and Northern Oriole [Oriolus affinis) are 

 foster-parents of the Koel [Eudynamis cyanocephala). — Alan P. 

 DoDD. Nelson, via Cairns (N.Q.), 16/12/12. 



New Yellow Robin. — Many years ago at Coomooboolaroo, Dawson 

 River district, Queensland, in the dry brigalow (acacia) scrub, 

 I procured an Eopsaltria with the dull yellowish rump, which did 

 not agree with the well-known southern form, E. australis. In due 

 course the skin found its way into the National Museum, 

 Melbourne. Recently, while examining material in connection 

 with the "Check-list " Committee, the skin was re-examined, and 

 is now separated sub-specifically from the Yellow-breasted Robin 

 {E. australis). 



It is remarkable that this (smaller) form of the southern bird 

 should appear sandwiched, so to speak, between the two bright 

 yellow-rumped varieties — E. chrysorrhoa (New South Wales and 

 South Queensland) and E. inagnirostris (North Queensland). 



The new bird is named E. coomooboolaroo after the station of i-- 

 the Messrs. Barnard, whose names as field ornithologists, together 

 with the name of their station, will become historical in the 

 annals of Australian ornithology. 



Eopsaltria coomooboolaroo (Lesser Yellow Shrike-Robin), in 

 addition to its smaller size, differs chiefly from E. aiistralis in the 

 absence of the greenish (olive) tint on the mantle, outer edges of 

 the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers, which are all uniformly 

 greyish. Dimensions in inches : — Length, 5.0 ; wing, 3.1 ; tail, 

 2.4 ; tarsus, 0.75 ; bill, 0.45. 



For description of eggs see " Nest and Eggs," page 312 (second 

 paragraph). — A. J. Campbell. 



Many-coloured Parrakeet {Psephotns multicolor).— In a some- 

 what small cage (2 feet x 2 feet x i foot 6 inches) I keep a pair 

 of Many-coloured Parrakeets, which nested in August last, but, 

 owing to the cold weather or other causes, from a set of five eggs 

 one young only was hatched, and that died when about a week 

 old. The same pair again nested in October, and the female laid 

 five eggs. The time that elapsed between the first egg being laid 

 and the fifth was about a week. Four young were hatched. I 

 should say incubation took 15 to 16 days, but, being loth to 

 disturb the female when sitting, I cannot state exactly the term. 

 It is now five weeks since I noticed the first one hatched. Three 

 are well feathered, and fine birds, and sit on the edge of the 

 box-nest, and two have already come to the bottom of the cage 

 to-day, starting to feed. The female, when sitting, seldom leaves 



