GREY THICKHEAD. 
more likely to be the correct one, as the bird is fairly common in the Cape York 
scrubs, and even more so on the Pascoe River. I had it pointed out to me 
by Mr. McLennan in the scrub at Somerset in 1910, where we watched and 
listened to it for some time. According to Mr. McLennan, it is never to be 
seen near the ground, always finding its living amongst the tangle of vegetation 
up in the scrub trees, and in this situation it was that we saw it disporting 
itself. It has a Robin-like note and all the ways of this group, and not in the 
least resembles any of the Pachycephalince, under which group it has been 
placed by Dr. Hartert, who has described it as Pachycephala peninsulce. Mr. 
Mathews created a new genus for it in Mattingleya, and as it is obviously neither 
a Pachycephala nor an Eopsaltria, it will have to take its place under this new 
genus. However, I must disagree with Mr. Mathews in still calling it a Thick- 
head. Its nest and eggs, when found, will help towards settling the points 
in dispute. Eggs have been sent down from Cape York as those of P. 
peninsulce ; these are, however, in most instances doubtless those of P . falcata , 
the only Thickhead in that region.” 
Campbell and Barnard, three years after the above, under the name 
Pachycephala peninsulce , wrote : “ This Thickhead was of peculiar interest 
to us and was fairly plentiful in the coastal scrubs (at Rockingham Bay, N. 
Queensland) ; and we had the opportunity of proving that Ramsay’s Eopsaltria 
inornata and Hartert’s Pachycephala peninsulce (both shown on the Union’s 
‘ Check-List,’ p. 65) are the same species. [I had shown this fact four years before 
in Austral Av. Pec., Vol. II., p. 11.] We found three nests — one with fledgelings 
(rufous-coloured, like those of Pachycephala gutturalis ) and two with each a 
pair of eggs resembling at first sight miniature Shrike-Thrushes’. The nest 
was found near the edge of a dense scrub on a stump of a tree that had been 
cut off near the ground, and from which suckers had sprung. The nest rested 
on the stump, and was concealed by the suckers, and was only found by the 
bird flushing. Adverting to the nest found with young, we went the following 
day to photograph the family, but some c evil beast ’ had anticipated us — 
the nest was empty. In its quest of food this bird resembles all the\ Pachy- 
cephala tribe ; it is often found in the company of other small birds during 
feeding time.” 
In this account no proof is given of the fact previously proven by 
Macgillivray, and the nesting habits given contrast strangely with the account 
given by that accurate worker, who added later : “ This interesting bird is 
also a denizen of the tropical scrub, and is fairly often seen. We failed, 
however, to find its nest, and this is not to be wondered at when its usual haunts 
are taken into consideration ; these are the smaller branches and leafage of 
the largest trees in the scrub, which often support an entangled mass of climbing 
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