EOPSALTRIA AUSTRALIS. 



(Yellow-breasted Bohin.) 



Hea.d, clieeks, shoulders, and back, grey ; upper tail coverts, bright yellow ; tail, blackish brown above, grey beneath — all but the two central 

 feathers slightly tipped with white ; wings, black ; throat, white ; chest and under surface, bright yellow ; irides, dark brown ; bill and feet, 

 black. The sexes are very similar, but the female is less brightly colored. 



Length, 6 inches ; wing, 3| ; tail, 8 ; bill, f ; tarsus, 1. 



This pretty but rather common species is found in New South Wales and Queensland, in various situations, not confining itself 

 to the scrubs alone. It is of a familiar disposition, and its flight consists of short excursions from one tree to another. At sunrise one 

 individual may be heard uttering a note like " chip ;" then it repeats the same twice over ; after which a regular chorus may be heard on all 

 sides, the note being three times repeated. It breeds about October, and makes its nest of fibrous roots, grass, and strips of bark, very neatly 

 and compactly arranged and matted together with spiders' webs, and attached to the outside are small scraps of bark and lichens. The 

 interior is lined with broad leaves or broad blades of grass. The nest is usually placed in the fork of a tree, and is not easily seen, being 

 wonderfully disguised by its similarity of coloring to the tree itself The eggs are two in number, bright green, and speckled with reddish 

 brown and dark brown : size, 9 by 7i lines. 



EOPSALTRIA GEISEOGULARIS. 



(Grey-breasted Robin.) 



CEOWisr, back of the neck, and upper part of the back, dark grey ; rump, upper tail coverts, and outer edges of the base of the tail feathers, 

 rich yellowish olive ; tail, blackish brown, slightly tipped with white in all but the two central feathers ; lores and patch beneath the eye, 

 blackish brown ; cheeks, lighter, mottled with whitish ; throat, white ; a broad baud of grey across the chest softening into the rich yellow of 

 the remainder of the under surface ; under tail coverts paler yellow ; quills, deep brown, narrowly edged with light buffy brown ; tertiaries, 

 tipped with white ; bill and feet, black ; irides, dark brown. 



Length, 6i inches ; wing, 3i ; tail, 2| ; bill, f ; tarsus, -f-. 



This species is nearly allied to the former and inhabits the western and southern portions of the Australian continent. It was 

 formerly supposed to be found only in "Western Australia, but Mr. Masters informs me that he shot several specimens at Port Lincoln in 

 South Australia, where it is somewhat rare, but inhabits a very dififerent kind of country to what he found it to do in the more western 

 colony ; the specimens obtained in South Australia being found in a dense mangrove swamp, while those shot by him at King Greorge's Sound 

 inhabited tbe open forest. The nest is of difiicult detection and is constructed of similar materials to that of the former species. The eggs 

 are very different, however, being of a wood brown color, obscurely freckled with yellowish red ; they are more lengthened in form than those 

 of E. Australis, and are in size 10 by 7t lines. 



EOPSALTRIA CAPITO. 



(Large-headed Bobin.) 



Uppee surface, olive green, brownish on the head ; wings and tail, greyish brown, faintly margined with olive green ; ear coverts, grey ; lores^ 

 a line beneath the eye, and the throat, greyish white ; under surface, light yellow ; irides, hazel ; bill, black ; feet, brownish flesh color. 



Length, If inches ; wing, 3i ; tail, 2\ ; bill, | ; tarsus, |. 



The northern portions of New South Wales and southern portions of Queensland are the habitat of this species, where it 

 frequents the dense tangled scrubs on the banks of the various rivers between the sea and the dividing range. It is far from common. The 

 sexes are much alike, but the female is rather smaller than the male. The nest in the possession of Mr. J. T. Cockerell, of Brisbane, 

 is formed of long thin shreds of bark, the outside of which is coated with fine moss, and matted together with spiders' webs, with 

 a few patches of lichen attached here and there ; it is lined internally with dried grasses, and the bottom is covered with leaves from 

 the tea tree. The nest measures 3f inches in external diameter. Eggs, four in number, beautiful pale green, spotted all over with light 

 greyish brown ; being much broken, I regret to say I cannot give their true measurement, but they are probably nearly as large as those of 



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