KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 52. N:o |7. 97 
Artamus melanops venustus SHARPE. 
Math. handl. n:r 631. 9& ad., 2 SF ad., 2 2QP juv.,, 3 SS juv. Nooncanbah U/;2, !/;2, ?3/;0 1910; 
17/4 1911, moult., excepting the juvenals. 
Moulting. — The adults are in moulting, which seems to be almost completed 
and to have taken place during the breeding season. 
Juvenals — in nestling plumage. probably born in Nov.—Dec. 
Ecological. — The species was generally found at Nooncanbah during the 
breeding season. 
Artamus minor derbyi MaATtH. 
Math. handl. n:o 635. 9 ad., Derby, Kimb. 19/10 1910, N. B. eggs in uterus; 3 SS ad. Meda, ibid. 
10/5 1911, beautiful plumage, one with primaries growing out; 9 juv., St. George Range, Fitzroy r. 19/3 1911; 
3 SJS ad. Beagle Bay, Dampier 1. !/; beautiful plumage; !”/+ younger bird, ?!/7 beautiful plumage. 
Nestlings. — Like the adults but the feathers are tipped with chestnut, espe- 
cially on the small wing-coverts. Even the March specimen is in nestling plumage 
with pins (the beginning of the year). No specimen in moulting. 
Ecological. — The little wood-swallow was found spread over the continent 
both at Mowla Downs and St. Georges Range (WIiDELL) as well as at Derby, Meda 
and Beagle bay. At Sunday Island it was missing. 
At Mowla Downs I observed it during the breeding season. Here it prefered 
to live in those caves in the mountain walls, where Petrochelidon nigricans neglecta 
had built their nests. On the 27th of Nov. 1910 I found its nest in the midst of a 
colony. The bird had employed a year-old nest of the swallows, out of which I took 
its two big young ones. Consequently the little wood-swallow lived here together 
with that swallow, which it resembles so much in its method of living and flying. 
On the 1l3th of Dec. (1910), however, I met with another nest, this one built 
by itself in a little hollow of the mountain wall. In the nest there were three eggs, 
yellow-white with red-brown spots. 
Fam. Prionopidee. 
Grallina cyanoleuca neglecta MATH. 
Math. handl. n:r 646. 2 992 ad. Derby, Kimb. ?/10, 3/10 1910, worn plumage; 2 SS ad., 8 ad. Beagle 
bay, Dampier 1. !?/;, 20/7 1911, good plumage; 9 ad. Nooncanbah, Fitzroy r. !!/12 1910, moult. just over. 
Ecological. — The western magpie-lark was perhaps the most common 
bird on the continent near cultivated places. In the bush, too, it was found here 
and there (Mowla Downs), though not so frequently as at settlements of man. At 
K. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. Band 52. N:o 17. 13 
