Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 451. 
Family MTJSCICAPIDM. 
ETHELORNIS MOUKI. 
QUEENSLAND FLYEATER. 
(Plate 384.) 
Gerygone ljevigaster mouki Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 310, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Cairns, Queensland. 
Gerygone culicivora (not Gould), North, Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. I., p. 30, 1890. 
Gerygone 'pallida North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., pt. m., p. 196, April 
27th, 1903 : Boar Pocket, Bellenden Ker Range, North Queensland ; Campbell and 
Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 20, 1917 : North Queensland. 
Not Gerygone pallida Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus., Vol. XX., p. 134, 1898 : New 
Guinea. 
Pseudogerygone pallida Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 63, 1908. 
Gerygone fusca pallida Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 309, 1912. 
Gerygone Icevigaster mould Mathews, ib., p. 310, 1912. 
Wilsonavis fusca pallida Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 172, 1913 ; id., Austral Av. Rec., 
Vol. II., p. 135, Jan. 28th, 1915. 
Wilsonavis Icevigaster mould Mathews, ib., p. 173. 
Distribution. North Queensland, Cairns district. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-parts including the head, back, wings and 
tail mouse-brown with an olivaceous tinge ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 
hair-brown ; flight-quills hair-brown on the inner webs with whitish margins ; tail 
similar to the back with a blackish subapical band and buffy-white spots on the 
inner webs at the tips of the lateral feathers ; lores and eyelids whitish ; ear-coverts, 
sides of neck, and sides of body similar to the back ; throat, breast and upper- 
abdomen dull white ; lower-abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts pale isabefline ; 
axillaries and under wing-coverts dull white ; under-surface of flight-quills hair- 
brown with pale margins ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown with buffy-white 
tips to the feathers. Eyes brown ; feet and bill black. Total length 107 mm. ; 
culmen 9, wing 51, tarsus 17, tail 40. Figured. Collected on Barron River, 
near Cairns, Queensland, on the 4th of June, 1911. And is the type of Gerygone 
Icevigaster mould Mathews. 
Adult male. Similar to the above ; wing 54 mm. (Barron River). 
Nest. “ Bulky, dome-shaped, with side entrance, suspended from near the end of a thin 
branch, often hanging over water.” (H. L. White.) 
Eggs. “ Clutch, three. Pinkish-white, marked all over with small freckles of reddish- 
brown, chiefly at the larger end. In shape they vary from long to swollen ovals. 
17 mm. by 12.” (ib.) 
Breeding-season. November (Mackay). (ib.) 
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