Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family MUSCICAPID M. 
No. 446. 
ETHELORNIS CAIRNSENSIS. 
ALLIED FLYEATER. 
(Plate 384.) 
Gerygone magnirostris cairnsensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol.. XVIII., p. 309, Jan. 
31st, 1912 : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Pseudogerygone brunneipectus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 221, 1879 
(Spec, from North Austr. only) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 158, 1901 ; id., Emu, Vol. V., p. 195, 1906 (N.Q.) ; Mackay, ib., Vol. VI., p. 192, 
1907 (N.Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 63, 1908. 
Gerygone conspicillata (not Gray) Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. VI., p. 425, 1899 : (Cape 
York). 
Pseudogerygone magnirostris Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 25, 1911 : (Cape York). 
Gerygone magnirostris cairnsensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 309, 1912 ; id., 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 57, 1912. 
Gerygone magnirostris Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 165, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Campbell 
and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 20, 1917 (Cardwell) ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 195, 
1918 (Cape York). 
Ethelornis magnirostris cairnsensis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 174, 1913. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Cape York to Cardwell district). 
Adult female. Upper-surface including the head, back, wings and tail yellowish-olive, 
more rusty on the upper tail-coverts ; primary -coverts and inner webs of flight- 
quills hair-brown with whitish margins to the latter ; tail similar to the back with 
a blackish subterminal band which is followed by whitish on the inner web at the 
tip ; eye-ring whitish as are also the bases of the feathers covering the posterior 
part of the nostrils ; lores blackish-brown ; throat, under tail-coverts, axillaries 
and under wing-coverts white ; breast, abdomen, sides of breast, and flanks cream- 
buff ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with pale inner edges ; subapical 
band faintly marked and whitish on the inner webs at the tip. Eyes brown ; bill 
and feet black. Culmen 10 mm., wing 56, tail 41, tarsus 17. Figured. 
Collected at Cairns, North Queensland, in August 1908. 
Adult male. Similar to the adult female. 
Immature. Practically the same as adult. 
Nest. Long and bulky front 12 inches to two feet in length, being wider where the nest 
proper is. Usually placed over water. Made of bark, fibre and leaves. Side 
entrance hooded. Lined with feathers. 
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