ALLIED FLYEATER. 
Gray seems to be quite a distinct species, and the typical series of conspicillata 
Gray cannot be considered as conspecific, while the Fergusson Island bird above 
mentioned is to me quite different. 
The species is well separated from magnirostris by its smaller size through- 
out, with a noticeable big bill, hence the confusion through the name character 
of the former. In coloration it is much paler above, a greyer shade, and with 
the under-surface strongly washed with buff, markedly so on the breast, hence 
the assignment to brunneipectus, again through the name. 
The specimens from Cape York are decidedly paler on the upper-surface 
and also on the lower than typical specimens, but are certainly conspecific. 
I admit two subspecies as : 
Ethelornis cairnsensis cairnsensis (Mathews). 
Cairns, North Queensland. 
Ethebrnis cairnsensis robini subsp. nov. 
Cape York, North Queensland. 
Apparently the iris is so dark in the immature of this species that Kemp 
marked it as “ black,” older birds having the iris brown, adults red. 
Recently Rothschild and Hartert have named the Fergusson Island form 
above mentioned as Gerygone magnirostris proxima, and ranked conspicillata 
as a subspecies of magnirostris . Of the former they wrote “ very closely 
allied to G. m. magnirostris of Australia, but the upper side is richer, the 
under side much more buff.” 
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