VOYAGE'TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
trees among which he was found ; and that fear, united 
with the cold and wet, in a great degree contributed to 
his death. What was the motive or caufe of this me- 
lancholy cataftrophe we have not been able to difcover ; 
but from the civility fhewn, on all €K:cafions, to the 
officers, by the natives, whenever any of them were met, 
I am ftrongly inclined to think that they muft have been 
provoked and injured by the convids. We this day 
caught a Yellow-eared Flycatcher (fee annexed plate). 
This bird is a native of New Holland^ the fize of a martin, 
and nearly feven inches in length ; the bill is broad at the 
bottom, and of a pale colour ; the legs dufky ; the plumage 
is moftly brown, mottled with paler brown ; the edges of 
the wing feathers yellov/ifh ; the under part of the body 
white, inclining to dufky about the chin and throat ; the 
tail is pretty long, and, when fpread, feems hollowed 
out at the tip ; beneath the eye, on each fide, is an irre- 
gular flreak, growing wider, and finilliing on the ears, of a 
yellow or gold colour. 
Early the next morning the governor, lieutenants G. 
Johnflon and Kellow, myfelf, fix foldiers, and two armed 
convi6ls, whom we took as guides, went to the place where 
Y the 
