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3 MYIAGRA CONOINNA, Govld. 



Pretty Plyoatcher. 



Gould, Eandhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 145, p. 254. 



The nest is a nea^ cup-shaped structure of bark with a few fine 

 grasses neatly interwoven, and placed on a horizontal bough 

 usually over a fork or junction of two branches ; the whole is 

 cemented together with cobweb and scales of lichens, &c. The 

 eggs, three in number, of a delicate bluish-white when fresh, with 

 a strongly defined band of spots and dots of wood-brown to sienna 

 or yellowish umber, here and there a dot of slaty-blue appearing 

 as if beneath the surface. Length (A) 0-64 x 0-53 inch ; (B) 

 0-65 X 0-52 inch. (Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S. W., Vol. vii., p. 48.) 



Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, Rockingham Bay, Dawson River. {Ramsay.) 



MYIAGRA NITIDA, Gould. 

 Shining Flycatcher. 



Gould, Samdbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 146, p. 255. 



The nest of this species is similar to those of other members of 

 the genus, and is placed in like situations. Specimens of these 

 eggs just received from Mr. E. D. Atkinson, of Table Cape, 

 Tasmania, are in form swollen ovals, of a faint greenish-white, 

 with a well defined zone of irregularly shaped spots and blotches 

 of yellowish -umber, umber -brown, and obsolete markings of 

 purplish-grey on the thicker end, a few dots of the same colour 

 being scattered over the remainder of the surface of the shell. 

 Length (A) 0-77 x 0-58 inch ; (B) 0-78 x 0-58 inch. 



Eah. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 

 District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South 

 Wales, Interior, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, 

 {Bamsa/y.) 



