ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES — NORTH. 
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For tlio sake of comparison the following measurements are given 
Total long tli of skill. 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Hill. 
Tarsus. 
Localities. 
P. leilavalensis , ad. sk 
6 inches 
2*8 
2*7 
0*42 
0*75 
Fullerton River, 
N . Queensland. 
P. penicillata 
$ ad. sk. 
67 „ 
3 45 
3 3 
0*5 
0*82 
Near Adelaide, 
S. Australia. 
it 
d'ad. sk. 
6*6 ,, 
3*3 
3*2 
0*47 
0*8 
lumrke, Western 
N. 8. Wales. 
a 
£ ad. sk. 
65 ,, 
8*8 
31 
0-47 
0*8 
Dawson River, 
Queensland. 
P. fla vescens, 
c?ad. sk. 
5*7 „ 
2 95 
2*7 
0*5 
0*7 
Georgetown, 
Gulf District. 
9 ad. sk. 
5*4 „ 
2*92 
2*7 
0*48 
0*7 
Derby, N. West 
Australia. 
IX.— DESCRIPTION of the NEST and EGGS of MICRsECA 
PALLIDA , De VIS. 
• Dr.W. M acgillivray has kindly forwarded the following description 
of the nest of this species, together with the eggs and skin of the 
bird for identification. 
“Two nests of this species of Micraica were taken by my brother 
Mr. A. S. Macgillivray on Leila vale Station, Fullerton River, 
North Queensland, between the 20th and 25th December, 1897. 
'They were built rather low down on horizontal branches in a patch 
of Giddea scrub and each contained a pair of eggs. A nest my 
brother sent was slightly smaller but more substantially built 
than that of M. faacinans , and of much the same material, the 
outside being ornamented with bits of bark and lichen attached 
by means of cobweb. ” 
The eggs are oval in form, one specimen having a pale bluish- 
grey ground colour, which is freckled and spotted with faint purple 
and purplish brown, predominating and becoming darker as usual 
on the thicker end of the shell ; the other is of a warm stone 
white ground colour, and in many places the markings which are 
of a light reddish-purple are confluent and intermingled with faint 
underlying spots of pale greyish lilac. Longth (A) 0*69 x 0*55 
inch ; (B) 0*67 x 056 inch. 
The range of this species probably extends right across the 
northern portion of the Australian Continent, for there are 
specimens in the Museum, obtained by Mr. E. J. Cairn at Derby, 
North-west Australia in 1886. 
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