34 Macgillivray, The Region of the Earner Range. [,^f"iuiy 



eggs). On the big swamp thousands of Micyotribonyx were 

 running in all directions. They were not nesting, and many 

 seemed to be moulting. A {q^n Black-throated Grebes {Podicipes 

 novte-hollandiie) and Pink-eared Ducks {MalacorhyncJius niein- 

 branaceus) were on the swamp. All the surrounding sand- 

 hills were littered with traces of aboriginal camps — circles of 

 stones and burned earth and charcoal, flints and grinders. 



Several Whistling Eagles were sailing over and around the 

 swamp, and also a pair of Harriers {C.gonldi), the first that I have 

 noted up this way. I went off to the right over a sand-hill into 

 country covered with scattered shrubby bushes. A nest of the 

 Black-faced Wood-Swallow {A. iiielanops) was found about 

 4 feet from the ground, in a small, stunted tree ; it contained 

 three eggs. Later I met our camp-keeper out after the horses ; 

 he told me that he had found two Tricoloured Chats' nests, each 

 containing three young birds, and a nest of the Brown Song- 

 Lark with three eggs. M'Lennan turned up with a seven clutch 

 of Short-billed Crow's eggs ; he also brought the lining of the 

 nest, which consisted of the silk of the trap-door spider, which I 

 kept for Dr. Pulleine, of Adelaide, who is interested in such 

 things. 



We packed up and went on past Fowler's Gap to the old dam 

 and well on Caloola Creek, where we camped. Searching the 

 scrubby flat along the creek we found Black Honey-eaters 

 {Myzoviela nigra) and Pied Honey-eaters {CertJiionyx variagatus) 

 busy feeding on the blossoms of the honeysuckle-tree {Eremophila 

 loiigifoUd) and of the tobacco-bush {Nicotiana glaucd) , in company 

 with " Greenies " and Miners. Tricoloured Chats were dodging 

 about the herbage and fallen, dead acacias, and every now and 

 then a Rufous Song-Lark would rise, singing, from the ground, 

 to some more commanding perch, where the alarm note would 

 be given to the brooding female to steal away. 



Description of a New CroW'-Shrike. 



By J. W. Mellor, A.O.U., Adelaide. 



Plumage uniform dusky-brown or brownish-black, somewhat 

 darker on the wings and tail. Four outer feathers on each side of 

 tail broadly tipped with white, while on the two centre feathers the 

 white is all but absent ; under tail coverts white. 



Wings.— Basal portion of inner web of primaries white, showing 

 a large patch of white when the wing is extended ; the outer web' 

 of primaries black, edged with greyish-white, the primaries and 

 secondaries being slightly tipped with white. 



Irides bright yellow. Legs, feet, and bill black. 



Total length, 20 inches ; tarsi, 3 inches ; bill, 3I inches in length 

 by I inch deep, forming a strong instrument for securing food, 

 which consists chiefly of insects. 



