44 ABTAMID^. 



Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 

 Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 

 Australia, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 



?-•» ARTAMUS PERSONATUS, Gould. 



Masked Wood Swallow. ' 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 78, p. 150. 



The Masked Wood Swallow builds a very frail structure of tine 

 twigs and grasses in some convenient fork of a low tree, or in the 

 hollow in the top of a stump. Eggs two or three in number ; 

 ground colour greyish-white clouded all over with blotches of light 

 brown, a few obsolete spots of grey appearing on the under surface 

 of the shell. Dimensions of a set of three taken by Mr. James 

 Ramsay at Tyndarie, October 1878. Length (A) 0-84 x 0-67 

 inch; (B) 0-83 x 0-65 inch; (C) 0-84 x 0-67 inch. • 



This species is to be found breeding in company with Artamus 

 su^erciliosus. On one occasion Mr. George Barnard of 

 Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Queensland, found the male of A. 

 swpereiliosus paired with the female of A. personatus. 



Hab. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 

 Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and 

 South Australia, West and South- West Australia. {Ra'maay.) 



ARTAMUS CINEREUS, Vieilht. 

 Grey-breasted Wood Swallow. 



Gould, Handhh. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 75, p. 147. 



I have never seen this bird in any collection. The following 

 description of the nidification of this species is taken from Mr. 

 Gould's Handbook to the Birds of Australia : — " It breeds in 

 October and November, making a round compact nest, in some 

 instances of fibrous roots, lined with fine hair-like grasses ; in 



