16 MORGAN— The Birds of Kallioota. 



eggs, and one two half-grown young. The nest is built low 

 down in the fork of a bush. It is made of dried grasses deco- 

 rated outwardly with bits of lichen, and lined with rabbit fur, 

 cow hair, and old coocoons. One nest measured, outside dia- 

 meter, three inches; inside diameter, If inches; depth, 1£ 

 inches. The male keeps away from the nest while the female 

 is sitting unless danger threatens, when he shows as much 

 anxiety as the female. The female does all the nest build- 

 ing, all the sitting, and probably all the feeding of the young. 

 The note of the male is a mixture of creak and croaks; the 

 creak seems continuous with two croaks interpolated. The 

 note of the female is a faint ''chef." The male of one nesting 

 pair had only a faint blush of red on the breast and none on 

 the forehead when the nest started, but by the time the eggs 

 were laid he had become sensibly redder without moulting. 



4:J. Smicrornis brerirostris viridescens. A flock of four 

 seen in a gum creek at the foot of the ranges. 



44. Rhipidiira fiabdUfera whitei (White-shafted Fantail). 

 Saw only one flock of these birds. It occurred to me when 

 too late to secure a specimen that they may have been R. f. 

 alUcauda, but they looked through the field glasses like the 

 common species. 



45. Leucocirca tricolor (Wagtail). Several pairs and single 

 birds seen. They had not nested by September 1st. 



40. Coracina novce hollandiw melanops (Black-faced Grau- 

 calus). Several small flocks seen up to seven in number; not 

 nesting. 



47. Lalage tricolor (White-shouldered Caterpillar Bird). 

 Appeared on August 26th, and soon became numerous. They 

 kept to the more thickly wooded country. Had not nested 

 by September 1st. 



48. Morganomis mperciliosus (White-browed Babbler). 

 Very common, nesting everywhere. Some pairs were feeding 

 young on August 4th, and some were still building nests on 

 September 1st. A pair built a nest in a low prickly shrub 

 about 10 feet from the front door, and in spite of being tumbled 

 over in the dark and having a basin of water thrown over 

 them they hatched out three young, and were feeding them 

 on September 1st. The young were fed upon caterpillars. All 

 clutches examined were either three or four in number, mostly 

 three. 



