Birds of Melville Island. 121 



] 20. Setosnra setosa isura. Northern Fantail. 



Rhipidura isura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1840, 1841, 

 p. 174: Port EssingtoD. 



A nest was built in a small wattle and placed on the top of 

 a horizontal fork, about six feet from the ground. It was 

 wine-glass shaped, with a tail four and a half inches long, 

 the materials used being grass and narrow strips of Paper- 

 bark. The outside was covered over with cobwebs. The 

 lining consisted of very fine pieces of Paper-bark. Measure- 

 ments : 2\ by 2^ inches deep; inside 1^ by 1| by | inches 

 deep. 



Eggs. Clutch two ; ground-colour cream, with a zone of 

 brown and lavender spots round the larger end. Axis 

 19 mm., diameter 14. They were taken in November. 



These birds are numerous, both in the forest and in the 

 mangroves, but they are never found in the dense parts of 

 the latter. 



121. Leucocirca tricolor picata. Western Black-and-White 

 Pantail. 



Rhipidura picata Gould, Birds Austr. vol. i. 1848, Introd. 

 p. xxxix : Port Essington. 

 Not rare. 



122. Myiagra rubicula concinna. Blue Flycatcher. 

 Myiagra C07icinna Gould, Birds Austr. vol. ii. 1848, pi. 90 : 



Port Essington. 



A nest was found about 35 feet from the ground on the 

 26th of October. Another one about 50 feet from the 

 ground on the 28th. They are cup-shaped, placed on the side 

 of a stick (which sloped at about 45 degrees) and constructed 

 of strips of Paper-bark, with a few rootlets inside ; on the 

 outside numberless small pieces of bark are plastered all over 

 the nest and held in place with cobwebs. Inside measure- 

 ments 1^ inches by 1 deep. 



Eggs. Clutch two; ground whitish, with a ring at the 

 larger end of large lavender and brown spots. Axis 19 mm., 

 diameter 14-15. 



