138 MATHEWS— Birds of horth and North-West Australia. 



Irides, ibrown; bill, bluish slate colour with black tips, 

 the lower mandible has more of this colour than ithe upper. 



No. 461— $ . Length, 6.1 inches (28/10/86). 



Irides, dark brown; bill, fine bluish-lead, with tips and 

 cutting edges black; legs and feet black. 



188. Myiagra latirostris tormenti. Western Broad-billed 

 Flycatcher. 



Myiagra latirostris tormenti (Mathews), Austral. Av. Bee, 

 Vol. I., p. 91, 1912. Point Torment, North-West Australia. 

 No. 269— S . Length, 6.1 inches (3/9/86). 



189. Seisura inquieta nana. Little Flycatcher. 



Seisura nana (Gould), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, Vol. 

 VI., p. 224, 1870. North-We»t Australia. 



No. 449— 2 . Length, 7.1 inches (25/5/86). 



Bill and feet black. This bird will fly to the branch of a 

 tree, and by a quick motion of the wings remain suspended 

 in the air, after the fashion of the kestrel, during which time 

 it gives forth a harsh, quickly repeated note apparently with 

 the object of shifting any insects that were in the bark, as 

 generally after so doing it ended in the bird flying away with 

 some insect. 



No. 65— $ . (29/5/86). 



Irides, black; bill, black, base of lower mandible bluish; 

 feet and legs, black. 



No. 75— 2 . Length, 6.9 (1/6/86). 



Irides, dark brown; upper mandible, black; lower, bluish 

 with black tips; legs and feet, black. 



No. 91— 2 . Length, 7.1. 



Upper mandible, black; lower, bluish white; tips, black; 

 legs and feet, black. 



No. 393— 2 . Length, 7.2 (12/10/86). 

 191. Symposiachrus trivirgatus albiventris. White-vented 

 spectacled Flycatcher. 



Monarcha albiventris (Gould), Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 

 1866, p. 217. Oape York. 



No. 19— (4/5/13). Thursday Island, off Cape York. 



193. CORACINA NOVAEHOLLANDIAESUBPALLIDA. Western Black- 



faced Cuckoo Shrike. 



Goracina novaeliollandiae subpallida (Mathews), Nov. Zool. 

 Vol. XVIII., p. 326, 1912. Strelly River, Mid-West Australia. 



No. 170— 2 . Length, 13.2 (22/6/86). 



Bill and feet black. 



No. 306— (22/7/86). 



Bill and feet black. 



