152 Mr. W. B.. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



There is no difference between the plumage o£ the sexes. 

 Young birds of the year resemble the adult, but the lower 

 mandible is blackish like the upper mandible, whereas in the 

 adult it is entirely whitish. The white spots at the tips of 

 the greater wing-coverts are usually smaller in young birds, 

 but this is a somewhat variable character. 



Several examples in the above series are in moult between 

 the months of September and February. 



A nest obtained at Wakatimi on the 22nd of August, 1910, 

 contained two fresh eggs, It is cup-shaped, and composed 

 of dried rushes, etc., lined with fine rootlets and plastered 

 over outside with cobwebs ; below the actual nest the 

 material is extended downwards, the whole structure having 

 a lono- inverted cone shaped appearance. It was placed in 

 the fork of a weed which was growing in rather deep water 

 in the swamp, the nest being only about eighteen inches 

 d,bove the surface. 



The eggs, two in number, are of a rather short oval shape, 

 somewhat pointed towards the smaller end, and slightly 

 glossy. The ground-colour is pale creamy white, with 

 various blurred markings of pale umber-:brown and liiacr-grey 

 spots, mostly welded into a zone round the widest part of the 

 shell. They measure respectively 19 x 14, 18 X 14*5 mm. 



" This was a common Flycatcher, and was usually ob-^ 

 jserved in the reeds and undergi'owth by the creeks and 

 rivers. It has all the habits and actions of its allies as 

 described under R. ryfidorsa" — C. H.B. Q. 



Khipidura setosa gularis. 



MJiipidura setosa (Quoy & Graim.) ; Sharpe, Cat. iv. p. 329 

 (1879) [part.]. 



RIdpidura setosa gularis Miiller ; Hoths. & Hartert, N. Z. 

 X. p. 464 (1903), XX. p. 494 (1913). 



a-e. ^ ? . Mouth of the Mimika River, 30th Nov. 1910- 

 24th March, 1911. [Nos, 22, 82, 153, 1266, 1274, 

 C.H.B.G.'] 



f. S- Wataikwa River, 25th Oct, 1910. [No. 1430. 

 G. C S.-] 



