Order PASSERIFORMES.] 



[Family MUSCICAPIDJE. 



MIRO AUSTRALIS. 



(NORTH-ISLAND ROBIN.) 



Miro australis (Sparrm.), Buller, Birds of New Zealand, vol. i., p. 33. 



Mr. J. C. M'Lean reports, from Gisborne, that on November 20th, 1889, he found a nest of 

 this Robin, containing three fresh eggs, in the fork of a lily-palm (Cordyline australis) 



THE LAST-KNOWN RESORT OF THE NORTH-ISLAND ROBIN. 



in thick manuka-scrub. In the same strip of manuka he found two more nests, in each 

 of which the eggs had been destroyed, for which, he states with certainty, rats were 

 responsible. 





