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torian Thickhead, Pachycephala pectoralis youngi. There were 

 many pairs in each gully. The cock birds, resplendent in 

 their gold and black and white plumage, would pour out their 

 rich and varied notes to listeners only a few feet away. I 

 think we have no bird whose notes more closely resemble those 

 of the nightingale. The more retiring Timixos (Pachycephala 

 olivacea fregellasi), Allied Olive Thickhead, were seen several 

 limes. 



The Mountain Thrush (Oreocincla lunulata dendyi) were to 

 be seen in the early morning and evening feeding on the damp 

 moss-covered logs in the bottom of the gullies. The Victorian 

 Grey Shrike-Thrush (Golluricincla harmonica, victoriae) had 

 adopted the note of the Australian Oriole (Mimeta sagittata), 

 and added the same to its repertory. I was misled on several 

 occasions by this note. The Oriole is fairly common in the 

 more open forest country at the foot of the mountain, but I did 

 not note it near the summit. 



One pair of the charming little Rose-breasted robin 

 (Belcher a rosea Old.) were met with far up the gully in the thick 

 low scrub, and a deserted nest in the fork of a sapling about 8 

 ft. from the ground. But strange to say that a breeding 

 male in female plumage was shot out of the top of one of 

 the high gums, where it had been feeding out of gunshot for 

 some time. 



Edwin Ashby. 



Heteroscenes pallidus — Pallid Cuckoo. 



THE GREAT DISSIMILARITY BETWEEN SEXES. 

 By S. A. White, M.B.O.U. 



In all ornithological works which have come under my 

 notice the plumage of the Pallid Cuckoo is stated to 

 be the same in both sexes. For many years I have 

 had grave doubts about this. After several years of 

 close observation in districts where this bird is very 

 common, and after handling over thirty birds in the flesh I can 

 positively say that there is a vast difference between the sexes 

 in adult plumage. Mr. G. M. Mathews put this question to 

 me in 1911 just before we left for Eyre's Peninsula in that 

 year, and I promised to try and prove my suppositions as to 



