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There were thousands of martins that returned in this way every evening. In the 
daytime they swept partly over the plain, partly over smaller depressions, or around 
the »billabongs». 
Fam. Muscicapide. 
Micreca fascinans subpallida MATH. 
Math. handl. n:r 435. JF ad. Derby, Kimb. "/10 1910, moult.; 2 ad. Nooncanbah, Fitzroy r. 16/12 1910; 
2 ad., 2 SS ad. Beagle bay, Dampier 1. 3/7 1911. 
Kcological. — Was common or rather common in the places the expedition 
visited in Kimberley, in Dampier land and at Sunday Island. 
In the beginning of April I have seen full-grown young ones in Derby. They 
were very slightly shy, and sometimes they flew into the houses in order to catch 
flies. Ants also formed part of this birds food. Many of the birds of Kimberley 
do not catch ants, and they are probably also only exceptionally' caught by this 
flycatcher. 
The bird does not sing badly, though the warble is composed of only a few 
elear whistling notes. In Beagle bay it was seen in July mornings, after the cold 
nights (—3” C.), sitting high in the tops of the trees basking in the sun, and giving 
forth its short carol. Later on in the day, when it was silent, it was seen hunting 
insects under the trees. 
Petreca goodenovii ramsayil SHARPE. 
Math. handl. n:r 445. JF juv. Meda, Kimb: !5/5 1911; J juv. Broome, Dampier 1. !/g 1911. 
Juvenals. — Both the specimens young males, the plumage like that of the 
female, but specimen no. 1 above has some feathers on the breast pale brick-red. 
Further both the specimens have a narrow white spot on the out-vane of the inner 
primaries. 
Variants. — These two specimens vary, however, from eachother; yet both 
of them represent the species in question, for the character of the ornamentation 
on the tail especially indicates, that we have not P. bicolor here. 
Specimen no. 1 has the forehead red-brown terra cotta (332:2 Repertoire de 
couleurs), and the bill longer and thicker than in specimen no. 2. No. 2 has the 
forehead dull carmine lake (106:2 Repertoire de couleurs) and a dull dark-brown 
back, darker than that of the former. These two juvenals, shot in Kimberley, show, 
as far as I am able to see, the same variations as are the marks of subspecies 
between the forms P. goodenovii ramsayi =no. 2 (North West Australia) and P. goo- 
denoviti alexandre = no. I (the North Territory). 
Was seldom found at Meda and in Dampier land (Beagle bay). 
