Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 460. 
Family MTJSCICAPIDM. 
KEMPIELLA KEMPI. 
YELLOW-BREASTED ROBIN. 
(Plate 390.) 
Kempiella kempi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 1, p. 12, Aug. 2nd, 1913 : Cape 
York, Queensland. 
Kempiella kempi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 1, p. 12, 1913 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 177, 1913 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 197, 1918. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Cape York to Claudie River). 
Adult male. Crown of head dusky-brown fading to ash-grey on the nape and sides of 
face ; entire back, scapulars, upper wing-coverts, outer margins of flight-quills, 
and tail-feathers olive-green ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills, 
blackish-brown on the inner webs, with pale margins to the last ; tail-feathers 
similar with pale tips and inner edges ; eye-ring whitish like the cheeks and base 
of the lores ; the feathers in front of the eye black in colour and bristly in texture ; 
rictal bristles also black ; ear-coverts greyish-brown with pale shaft-streaks ; chin 
and throat greyish-white with black hair-like tips to some of the feathers ; fore-neck 
grey tinged with pale fawn colour ; breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries 
and under wing-coverts dull yellow, rather darker on the sides of the body ; under- 
surface of flight-quills hair-brown with pale inner edges ; lower aspect of tail similar 
with slightly paler margins to the feathers. Eyes black, feet yellow, upper mandible 
black, lower yellow. Figured. Collected at Paira Scrubs, Cape York, on the 28th 
of February, 1913. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but not so yellow on the under-surface. Collected 
on the Claudie River, North Queensland, on the 9th of October, 1913. 
Nest and Eggs. Not described. 
Since I described this new form Macgillivray has met with it on the Claudie 
River, and has published this, the only note : “ This Flycatcher first came under 
my notice on the 22nd November in some scrub at our top camp. Another 
pair frequented the edge of the scrub not far from our main camp. We watched 
a pair high in the scrub for an hour, trying to locate a nest, during which time 
we were unmercifully harassed by hordes of mosquitoes and March flies : we had 
finally to retreat. This bird has the ways of a Flycatcher, making short flights 
from branchlet to branchlet, and occasionally into the air to capture a passing 
insect, all the time uttering a subdued piping call which resembles * Zzt, zzt, 
zzt,’ given out in a low tone, and repeatedly. The yellow of its gape is plainly 
seen when calling with open mouth. We watched other pairs after this, but the 
nest still remains to be found.” 
This is all that is yet known about this bird. 
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