The stomach is small, but very muscular, and oil dissection is found to contain 0668, wasps, and 

 various smaller insects, as well as the pollen of (lowers. 



It broods in August and September. The nest, which is placed in a low bush, is formed of 

 strips of stringy bark, interwoven with wiry grasses and the cocoons of spiders. It is generally lined 

 internally with kangaroo or opossum fur, but sometimes the fur-like material in which the base of the 

 fronds of tree-ferns is embedded is used instead, and in some there is no lining. Two or three o<nr,s are 

 laid, eleven lines long by eight lines broad. In colour they are fleshy-buff, with small prominent spots 

 of chestnut-red, and a very few of purplish-grey, thinly distributed over the surface. 



The colouring of the sexes is the same, but the female is only about two-thirds the size 

 of the male. 



The Lores and cheeks are black ; crown of the bead, ear-coverts, breast, and under surface, dark 

 grey, some of the oar-coverts being tipped with yellow : chin and upper part of the throat, bright yellow ; 

 the upper surface, wings, and tail, brownish-olive : inner webs of the primaries and secondaries, dark 

 brown ; abdomen and Hanks, washed with olive ; bill, black : irides. wood-brown ; legs and feet, black. 



Total length, H inches; bill, I inch; wing, 4[ inches; tail, 4j inches; tarsi, I inch. 



Habitats: Tasmania, and parts of Victoria. 



