460 



Family ARTAMIDAE. 



Artamus leucorhynchus leucopygialis, Gould 



( White-rumped Wood-Swallow) . 



These birds were met with along the flooded area of the 



Cooper, and there is little doubt they were nesting there at 



the time of our visit. Upon one occasion a bird was seen 



to come from an old mud nest of Grallina cyanoleuca r 



Latham. 



September 25 tf 



September 30 J 



Total length. 

 174 mm. 

 174 mm. 



Expanse of wings. 

 368 mm. 

 368 mm. 



Campbellornis personatus munna, Mathews 



(Masked Wood-Swallow). 



While travelling up the Strzelecki Creek a very large 

 flock of these birds was seen. They were evidently migrating 

 prior to nesting. 



Total length. 



224 mm. 

 205 mm. 

 202 mm. 

 205 mm. 

 200 mm. 



September 



24 



6 



September 



24 



d 



September 



24 



d 



September 



24 



6 



September 



24 



9 



Expanse of wing-.. 

 343 mm. 

 343 mm. 

 361 mm. 

 355 mm. 

 361 mm. 



Campbellornis superciliosus, Gould 

 ( White-browed Wood-Swallow) . 

 A few birds were in company of the above species. 



Total length. Expanse of wings. 



September 24 $ 205 mm. 343 mm. 



Austrartamus melanops, Gould (Black-faced Wood-Swallow). 



PI. xxxi., fig. 1. 



After leaving Farina specimens were taken in the type 

 locality, for my father, the late Samuel White, collected the 

 type at Saint A'Becket Pool, a little south of Farina, on 

 August 23, 1863. It was described by Gould in Proceedings 

 Zool. Soc, 1865. He also gave a beautiful illustration 

 of this bird in his folio work. We met with these birds all 

 through the country. They were nesting in many places. 

 The nest was placed in a mulga tree as a rule, and composed 

 mostly of a small flowering plant, Gnephosis eriocarjxi, the 

 flower-heads and stems being intertwined in a most artistic 

 fashion, and lined with brown rootlets, the usual clutch of 

 eggs being three. When approaching the nest the bird? 



