Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 433. 
Family MUSCICAPIB M. 
MICROECA BRUNNEICAUDA. 
BROWN-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 
(Plate 376.) 
Microeca brunneicauda Campbell, Emu, Yol. II., p. 85, 1902 (Oct.) : (Port Darwin) 
Northern Territory. 
Microeca brunneicauda Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 85, 1902 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 61, 1908; Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., p. 169, 1910; Hill, ib., p. 273; 
Mathews, Nov. Zool., Yol. XVIII., p. 303, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 106, 
1913 ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 35, 1915 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 110. 
Microeca brunneicauda tormenti Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 2, p. 58, April 
7th, 1916 : Point Torment, North-west Australia. 
Microeca brunneicauda brunneicauda Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North-west Australia ; Northern Territory. 
Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face and hind-neck ash-grey ; back, upper tail-coverts, 
scapulars and upper wing-coverts dark yellowish-olive ; flight-quills brown, with 
pale margins to the outer and inner webs ; tail hair-brown, becoming paler at the 
tips of the feathers and on the outer margins ; lores and eye-ring dull white like 
the sides of the hinder-crown ; throat, abdomen and under tail-coverts greyish- 
white tinged with yellow on the abdomen ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
sulphur-yellow, becoming darker on the sides of the body ; under-surface of quills 
brown with pale inner edges ; lower aspect of tail pale brown. Eyes brown ; 
feet and tarsus black ; upper mandible black, lower brown, with base pale brown. 
Total length 132 mm. ; culmen II, wing 76, tail 55, tarsus 16. Figured. 
Collected at Point Torment, North-west Australia, on the 7th of April, 1911. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Immature. Rather similar to the immature of M. fascinans. 
Nest. “ Small open structure, composed of bark, the outside being covered with small 
pieces of leaves and cobwebs, and gives the following measurements : Outside — 
breadth, If inches, depth lxtr ; inside — breadth 1 xu inches, depth f inch.” (White.) 
Eggs. Clutch, one. “ Ground-colour pale bluish-grey, spotted all over, but particularly 
at the larger end, where an irregular zone is formed, with chestnut and purple, 
those of the latter colour mostly appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell.” 
(White.) Measurements 19 mm. by 14. 
Breeding-season. October. (White.) 
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