The upper surface, wings, tail, and ear-coverts are dark brown ; under surface, greenish- 

 white : irides, reddish-brown ; bill, legs, and feet, blackish-brown. 



Habitat : Tasmania. 



GKNUS MELANODRYAS (Gould). 



OjOME naturalists consider that there are two members of this genus, but as this assertion rests on 

 ^ very slender grounds, only one has been figured here. 



MELANODRYAS CU CULL AT A. 



HOODED ROBIN. 



f M 1 1 E Hooded Robin is found in all parts of Australia except the north, dwelling principally in 

 JL open forest country, where it is nearly always to be seen on some of the lower branches of 

 larire trees, Hitting about in search of insects. It does not inhabit Tasmania. 



It breeds from September till the end of January, laying three eggs in a nest made of 

 narrow strips of bark and various coarse grasses, lined with fine fibrous roots and wool, and placed 

 in the fork of one of the lower branches of a tree. The length of the eggs is ten and a half 

 lines, and their breadth seven and a half lines. In colour they are light green, tinged with brown. 

 Two. and sometimes three, broods are reared each season. 



The male has the throat, upper surface, wings, and tail, blackish-brown ; the feathers covering 

 the insertion of each wing, a band across the secondaries, and bands across the outer tail-feathers on 

 each side, are white ; breast and abdomen, white ; irides, blackish-brown ; bill, legs, and feet, black. 



The female has the upper surface brownish-grey ; wings, as in the male ; under surface, light 

 brownish-grey ; tail, brown, the lateral feathers white at the base. 



Habitats : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. 



