92 The Emu. 
4. Petrceca picata, Gould (sub-sp. of P. bicolor, Vig. & Hors.), 
Pied Robin. 
Melanodryas picaia, Gould, Birds Aust., Handbook Birds Aust., vol. i., 
p. 285 (1865). ' 
Peif ceca picala, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. , vol. iv., p. 174 (1879). 
a. Adult male, 28/12/00. Breakaway. 
b and r. Adult females, 31/8/00 and 28/12/00. Breakaway. 
That which is said to distinguish this sub-species from the 
species is a doubtful quantity. 
Specimen a has not the usual dense black plumage. It is 
blackish-brown and brown rather than black on the forehead. 
The wing and tail quills are brown. 
5. Rhipidura phasiana (De Vis), Pheasant F'an-tail. 
Rhipidura phasiana^ De Vis, Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. i., p. 158 
(1884). 
a and b. Adult males, 27/6/01. 
c. Immature female, 1 8/3/01. 
d. Immature skin, 27/3/01. 
Young (skins c and d). — There is no lower throat black band, 
merely a trace of it dividing the white from the orange-brown. 
The white markings on wing coverts are larger than in adult 
birds ; less white upon the tail ; superciliary mark grey ; upper 
surface of body grey, the tail being blackish-brown, nearly as in 
adult. 
6. SiSURA NANA (Gould), Little Fly-catcher. 
Sisura Jiana, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iv., p. 408 (1879). 
a. Adult male, 6/yioi. 
b. Immature male, 2/3/01. 
c. Adult female, 2/7/01. 
There is merely a faint trace of orange-brown upon the chest 
of a, while in the immature bird, b, there is a distinct patch of 
it. In c the chest, a portion of the throat, and breast are richly 
flushed with orange-brown. 
hninature Male {b). — Lores brown ; quills of tail and wings 
brown and black, the black quills being the new feathers ; thighs 
ruddy-brown ; black feathers of chin and throat scarcely de- 
veloped. [Irides dark brown ; base of upper and two-thirds of 
lower mandible leaden-blue, balance of upper and lower black ; 
legs bluish-black ; feet black.] 
[A nest was placed in a eucalypt by the river, some twenty feet 
from the ground (1/2/01.)] 
7. Myiagra latirostris (Gould), Broad-billed Fly-catcher. 
Myia^ra latirostris^ Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. ii., pi. 92 (1848) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iv., p. 381 (1879). 
One adult male (25/8/00) and one adult female were received. 
