1875. ] BIRDS FROM QUEENSLAND. 
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82. MoNARCHA TRIVIRGATA. 
One of the most common scrub birds. Its actions aremore animated 
than those of W. carinata; it constructs the same kind of nests, in 
similar places, and of the same materials; also lays eggs two or three 
in number, of the same colour and markings, only differing a little in 
size. 
83. GERYGONE ALBOGULARIS. 
This species just arrived in time, before I left the Herbert, to be 
entered in the list ; their arrival was announced by their pretty, 
melodious song, about the end of April. They arrive to breed with 
us in New South Wales in September or late’ tugust. If I 
remember right, their nest and eggs I have fully described pre- 
viously, 
84. GERYGONE CULICIVORA? 
This is either G. culicivora or a new species. It is found com- 
mon among the dense belts of mangroves near Cardwell; we found 
several of its nests containing eggs and young birds on Feb. 26, 
when my young friend Master I. Sheridan, an enthusiastic young 
naturalist, kindly waded nearly up to his thighs in black mud to 
secure them for me; one nest contained the eggs of a Cuckoo, 
exactly the same as that of Chrysococcyx plagosus, but smaller than 
any eggs of that bird I have hitherto met with; it is probably the 
egg of C. minutillus. The nest is a somewhat bulky structure, and 
resembles closely a lump of débris left by the floods hanging to the 
end of some leafy twig, it is composed of shreds of bark, dried water- 
weeds, and withered grasses, selected, I have no doubt, from the 
débris of the floods, plentiful on every side. It is oval oblong, with 
a small side entrance, and suspended by the top to the end of some 
hanging branch, often a considerable distance from the shore. The 
eggs are white, with a few dots of brown at the larger end; some 
altogether white, without any markings. 
85. GERYGONE, sp. inc. 
One of the most common species, always to be found in the dense 
scrubs by its pleasing twittering note. ‘The birds were in full moult 
when shot. A very indistinct dark bar across tip of the tail, other- 
wise like G. albogularis. 
86. ERYTHRODRYAS ROSEA. 
One pair noticed on the margin of a dense scrub ; although fre- 
quently watched for hours, no nest was discovered. 
87. PETROICA MULTICOLOR. 
88. MELANODRYAS CUCULLATA. 
Both species appear to be residents; they are not plentiful, but 
met with on several occasions in the open forest-lands, and near the 
homesteads of the settlers. 
