IDS MUSOICAPIDiB. 



thickly covered with dead leaves, about five or six miles inland 

 from Cape York, observed a nest of this species placed on the 

 earth at the foot of a small tree ; its internal diameter was four 

 inches and a-half ;■ it was outwardly composed of small sticks, with 

 finer ones inside, and lined with grass-like fibres, and was moreover 

 surrounded with dead leaves heaped up to a level with its upper 

 surface ; it contained two eggs an inch Ion j by seven-tenths of an 

 inch broad, of a regular oval shape, and of a very light stone-grey 

 thickly covered with small umber blotches, which increased in size 

 and were more thickly placed at the larger end : they were placed 

 side by side, with the large end of one opposite the small end of 

 the other." {Gould, Hamdhk. Bds. AusL, Vol. i., p. 291.) 



Hah. Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York. (Bomsay.) 



Genus EOPSALTEIA, Gould. ' 



^J-' EOPSALTRIA AUSTRALIS, Latham. 



Yello'w-tareastecl Robin. 

 Gould, Handhh., Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 175, p. 293. 



" The nest of this species much resembles in form those of the 

 true Australian Robins of the genus Petvceca, to which the birds 

 also closely assimilate in their movements and habits, with the 

 exception that the Eopsaltrim are lovers of the more unfrequented 

 parts of the bush, while nearly all the members of the genus 

 PeProeca prefer the open and half cleared patches of land. The 

 nests of the Yellow-breasted Robin are either placed in the upright 

 fork of some small tree, or built upon some horizontal bough, often 

 within two or three feet of the ground. It is a beautifully round 

 and cup-shaped structure, three inches high by two inches across 

 and one inch and a-half deep, composed of strips of bark, and lined 

 most frequently, with the narrow thread-like leaves of the native 

 oak (Casua/rina) and a few dry leaves of the Eucalypti. The 

 edges and parts of the outside are studded with small pieces of the 



