collected in Dutch New Guinea. 169 



tinged with greyish^ instead of rather light brownish-olive 

 with a slight rufous tinge. 



Iris reddish-brown or crimson ; bill black ; feet bluish- 

 ash-colour or pinkish-lavender. Wing 54 mm.; tail 39, in 

 both male and female. 



a, 6. c? ? . Mouth of the Mimika River, 20th & 23rd 

 May, 1911. [Nos. 1208, 1250, G. H. B. G.'\ ( Types of the 

 subspecies.) 



c-e. S ? • Mouth of the Mimika Uiver, 16th-25th March, 

 1911. [Nos. 1174, 1268, 1284, C.H. B. G.'\ 



f. S- Wakatimi, Mimika River, 6th March, 1911. 

 [No. 1105, C.n.B.G.] 



g. $. Launch Camp, Setakwa River, Oct. 1912. 

 [C.B.K.-] 



The type of P. conspicillata (Gray) is in the British 

 Museum ; it is a female example procured by Wallace at 

 Dorei. 



A nest was found in a mangrove-swamp suspended from 

 an overhanging branch. It is about 18 inches long and 

 composed of various dried roots, creepers, and leaves, the 

 lower part forming the nest, which has an entrance at the 

 side with a sort of hood formed by the upper material ; it is 

 lined with fine rootlets and feathers. 



There were four eggs in the nest, one of them belonging 

 to a small species of Cuckoo, no doubt Cacomantis assimilis 

 (see p. 1 84). The male Flycatcher was secured. 



The eggs are of a rather long and somewhat pointed oval 

 shape ; the ground-colour is pinkish-white, finely speckled all 

 over and spotted chiefly towards the larger end with light 

 red ; one egg is much more spotted than the other two ; in 

 all three under-markings of pale reddish-lilac are also present.. 

 They measure respectively, 18 X 13, 18 X 13, and 18 X 12 mm., 



" The Mimika Warbler-Flycatcher was tolerably nu- 

 merous in the mangrove-swamps along the coast, where it 

 was usually observed in pairs. It bad very W^arbler-like 

 actions and its call-note was a short ' cheep.' " — C. H. B. G. 



