MATHEWS— Birds of North and North-West Australia. 139 



No. 355— 5 . Length, 12.5 inches (2/8/86). 

 No. 390— ? . Length, 12.3 inches (9/8/86). 

 No. 231— 2 . Length^ 13.1 inches (29/8/86). 

 Irides, dark brown; bill, legs, and feet, black. 



195. Lalage tricolor indistincta. Pale-rumped Cater- 

 pillar-eater. 



Lalage tricolor indistincta (Mathews), Nov. Zool., Vol. 

 XVIIL, p. 328, 1912. Wyndham, North-West Australia. 



No. 47— (immature) $ . (26/5/86). 



Upper mandible and tip of lower, brown; the oase of the 

 lower, yellowish white; feet, black. 



No. 82— $ . Length, 7.5 inche's (2/6/86). 



Irides, brown; bill, brown; the base of the lower niandibk-, 

 whitish; feet, black 



No. 270—9. Length, 7.2 inches (4/9/86). 



No. 349— $ . Length, 7.2 inches (31/7/86). 



No. 299— $ . Length, 7.4 inches (21/7/86). 



202. Pomatostomus temporalis nigrescens. Dark Babbler 



Pomatorhinus temporalis nigrescens (Mathews), Nov. Zool., 

 Vol. XVIIL, p. 335, 1913. Strelly River, Mid-West Australia. 



No. 149— 5 . Length, 9.6 inches (19/6/86). 



Irides, dark brown; bill, dark horn, lighter at base of the 

 culmen and base 1 of the lower mandible; legs and feet, black. 



No. 153—4. Lenglh, 10.2 inches. 



No. 155— 2 . Length, 9.8 inches (19/6/86). 



Irides, light yeilow; bill, black; base of the culmen, bluish 

 white, base of the lower mandible, bluish white; legs and feet, 

 black. Common, and lives in families of twelve to fourteen. 

 The nests are roughly made of twigs, oval in shape, the long 

 axis placed horizontally, the entrance hole being at the side, 

 placed aibout fifteen feet from the ground. The birds are very 

 noisy, and move from one tree to another, going first to the 

 lower branches, and then mounting by jumps or hops to the 

 top ones, when they would fly off to another some 15 or 20 

 yards off. 



No. 348—5. Length, 9.6 inches (31/7/86). 



No. 371— $ . Length. 9.9 inches (26/9/86). 



No. 372— $ . Length, 10 inches (4/8/86). 



Irides, straw yellow; ibill, brown, lighter on the culmen, 

 and yellowish white oji the Bides of the lower mandible, and 

 becoming white at the (bate; legs (and feet, dark brown. 



