THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
been determined locally. Mr. J. Colclough, of the Queensland Museum, reports 
having seen the bird at Gympie (100 miles north of Brisbane) and I have listened 
to it at Maroochydore (60 miles north of Brisbane), but Mr. E. M. Cornwall 
has not noted the species so far north as Mackay. The breeding-season is 
probably indeterminate. Personally, I have only found the bird nesting in 
the springtime, but Mr. R. Illidge has had nests in his fig trees at Bulimba (a 
suburb of Brisbane) both in November and in June. Incidentally, the female 
of the species, who seems to do by far the greater part of the work of nest 
building, is one of the most rapid little workers that ever I have watched. Both 
birds, in fact, seem possessed of much of the high vitality of their ecstatic kin- 
spirit, Dicceum hirundinaceum , the Australian Flowerpecker.” 
As will be seen from the synonymy I have previously regarded this as 
a subspecies of levigaster, but I am allowing it specific rank as its exact 
relationship is not proven. Its restricted habitat, its large size and manners 
are peculiar, and until the northern forms are linked up exactly it is better 
to allow a number of species. 
As the bird figured and described by me is bigger in the wing than typical 
specimens, it can be called Ethelornis cantator weatherilli subsp. n. 
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