COLLURICINCLA BRUNNEA, Gould. 
Brown Colluricincla. 
Colluricincla brunnea, Gould ia Proc. of Zool. Soc, Part VIII. p. 164. 
Men-e-Iob-roo, Aborigines of Port Essington. 
This bird is abundantly dispersed over the Cobourg Peninsula, and is to be met with in all the forests in 
the immediate neighbourhood of Port Essington, in which distant locality it represents the Colluricincla 
harmonica of New South Wales, the Colluricincla Selbii of Van Diemen's Land, and the Colluricincla rujiventris 
of Western Australia. As might be expected, its habits and manners are very similar to those of the other 
species of the genus, consequently the description of those of Colluricincla harmonica is equally descriptive 
of those of Colluricincla brunnea. 
A nest of this bird found on the 2nd of February was built in the upper part of a hollow stump, and 
was outwardly formed of narrow strips of the bark of the Melaleuca and lined with fine twigs. The eggs 
are of a pearly bluish white, spotted and blotched with markings of olive-brown and grey, the latter colour 
appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell ; their medium length is one inch and two lines by ten lines 
in breadth. 
It is a larger and more robust species than either C. harmonica or C. rujiventris, the bill is shorter and 
much stouter, and the colouring is of a uniform light brown ; even the primaries and tail-feathers are of 
the same hue. 
All the upper surface pale brown ; primaries and tail the same, but somewhat lighter ; all the under sur- 
face brownish white, becoming almost pure white on the vent and under tail-coverts ; thighs greyish brown ; 
bill black ; feet blackish brown. 
The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size. 
