Iii October a nest is constructed of strips of bark, lined with grass, and is placed OH a email 



shrub or trie; in Western Australia, the Xanthorrhces or grass tree being most often chosen. 



Three eggs are laid, in colour greyish-white, with spots, and often minute lines, of Mack. Some are also 

 blotched with grey, and others again have the larger end of a bluish-green colour. 



The female differs from the male in being much duller in colouring. 



The male has the face. chin, and throat, white; feathers on the fore part of the head, along 

 the centre of the crest, a line from the eye bounding the white, and a large gorget-shaped mark on the 

 breast arc deep Mack ; sides of the head and crest, grey ; all the upper surface, wings, and flanks, light 

 olive-brown; centre of abdomen, white; under tail-coverts, reddish-huff ; tail, dark brown; irides, reddish- 

 orange : bill, legs, and feet, black. 



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



GENUS CHIBIA (Hodgson). 



^~~^\LY one member of this genus has been found in Australia. 



CHIBIA BRACTEATA (Gould). 



SPANGLED DRONGO-SHRIKE. 



rilHE present species is found in Queensland and in all the northern part of Australia, associating in 

 -A- pairs and frequenting brushes and mangrove swamps, and also, to a certain extent, the more 

 open country. 



Whilst seeking for the insects on which it subsists, it continually utters a loud, harsh and 

 disagreeable whistle, which, as Gilbert says, "is so totally different from that of any other bird that, 

 having been once heard, it is readily recognised." 



It breeds in the spring months, constructing a nest of the stalks of creepers, and placing it on 

 one of the boughs of a high tree. Either three or four e^s are laid. 



The head and body, both above and below 7 , arc deep black, the feathers of the head and chest 

 having a spot of green on each; wings and tail, bluish-black, the wings tipped with white; irides, 

 brownish-red ; bill, legs, and feet, black. 



Habitat- : Queensland and North Coast. 



