PLATE XXXIII. 



GERYGONE FUSCA (Gould). 



BROWN GERYGONE. 



IN most of the brushes near the coast, in New South "Wales and Victoria, this species is found in 

 considerable abundance. It also inhabits, to some extent, thick forests in the interior. 



It obtains its food in different ways, sometimes procuring it from the branches and leaves ot 

 the trees, and at other times catching insects ' whilst on the wing, after the manner of the 

 Flycatchers. 



It continually utters a weak twittering note. 



It breeds in September and the two following months, constructing of moss, bark, and various 

 soft grasses, a dome-shaped nest, with an entrance in the side in the form of a spout. Three white 

 eggs, slightly freckled with red, are laid ; their length is seven and a-half lines, and their breadth 

 five and a-half lines. 



The upper surface, wings, and base of the tail, brown ; a band of black stretches 

 across the tail near the tip, the extremities of the feathers being white ; under surface, light yellow : 

 irides, light red ; bill, legs, and feet, black. 



Total length, 3f inches ; bill, \ inch ; wing, 2^ inches ; tail, If inch ; tarsi, § inch. 



Habitats : New South Wales and Victoria. 



GERYGONE ALBOGULARIS (Gould). 



WIIITE-TIIROATED GERYGONE. 



rnHIS is an inhabitant of New South Wales, but unlike the Brown Gerygone, it frequents the 

 J- open Eucalyptus forests rather than the brushes. 



It resembles the Gerygone Fusca in habits, like it resorting principally to the trees to obtain 

 its means of subsistence. 



There is no perceptible difference in the plumage of the sexes. 



The crown of the head, ear-coverts, upper surface, and wings, are olive-brown ; two centre 

 tail-feathers, brown, the remainder greyish-white, crossed near the tip by a band of black ; throat, 

 white ; rest of under surface, light yellow ; irides, light red ; bill, legs, and feet, black. 



Total length, 4j, inches ; bill, ^ inch ; wing, 2f inches ; tail, If inch ; tarsi, £ inch. 



Habitat : New South Wales. 



