The Emu. 
tinge, and along the outer borders of the primaries, secondaries, 
and coverts is the same, particularly well exhibited in the 
secondaries ; head and neck grey ; back and rump ruddy brown, 
as in adult; under surface white; wing, 1.5 inches. [Bill light 
brown ; irides brown ; legs and feet bluish-grey.J 
[The nesting appears to take place among the mangroves. 
I have found three clutches of two and three eggs — a, 1 8/3/01 ; 
b, 20/3/01 ; <f, 2 1/3/0 1, a was taken in the top of a mangrove 
shrub two feet from the ground, b and c three feet from the 
ground. In b were two eggs of the Fly-eater and two of the 
Bronze Cuckoo. In such a nest there would not have been any 
room for two Cuckoos in a full-grown nestling stage. In a 
fourth nest I found a dried-up dead bird sitting on a clutch of 
three eggs. One was slightly cracked, and upon breaking this 
I found, much to my surprise, a living young bird in it. This 
shows one how the nests in this hot place are natural incubators 
in many cases. The bird had been dead for some days. The 
nest had been knocked about in a gale a few days ago, and the 
rain had beaten it about. In this nest was a Bronze Cuckoo's 
egg.] 
30. PSEUDOGERYGONE TENEBROSA (Hall), Dusky Fly-eater. 
Pseudo^erygone te?iebrosa^ Hall, Vict. Nat., vol. xviii., No. 5, p. 78 
(1901). 
a. Adult male, 19/6/00. 
b. Adult male, 3/9/01. 
c. Adult female, 3/9/01. 
d. Adult skin (sex ?), 1/9/01. 
e. ,f. Adult males, — /9/01. 
c specimen has its head and throat faintly flushed with pale 
tawny colour of the under surface, and even more noticeable. ■ 
31. Gerygone albigularis (Gould), White-throated Fly- 
eater. 
Gerygone albogiilaris, Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. ii., p. 79 (1848). 
Geryoo7ie albii^idai^is^ Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iv., p. 212 
(1879). 
Two skins — one an adult male, the other unsexed — dated 
13th and 26th August, 1900. 
32. Smicrornis FLAVESCENS (Gould), Yellow-tinted Tree-Tit. 
Sinicrornis finvescens^ Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. ii., pi. 104 (1848) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iv., p. 210 (1879). 
One adult male (23/2/00) and one young female (11/2/01). 
The difference is slight, though the young may in this case be 
identified by its paler yellow under surface. [Irides and corner 
of mouth white ; bill brown, having cutting edge of upper and 
all lower mandible grey ; legs and feet dull pale brown.] Lores 
creamy; primaries edged with white along the distal outer 
webs. 
