RESTLESS FLYCATCHER. 
Emu, Vol. X., p. 276, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; id., ib., Yol. XII., p. 257, 1913 (N.T.) ; 
Witmer Stone, Austral Ay. Rec., Vol. I., p. 159, 1913. 
Seisura inquieta inquieta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 323, Jan. 31st, 1912 ; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 189, 1913. ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 244, 1914. 
Seisura inquieta nea Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 323, Jan. 31st, 1912 : (Dawson 
River) Queensland ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 189, 1913. 
Seisura inquieta westralensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 323, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Broome Hill, South-west Australia ; id-, List Birds Austr., p. 189, 1913. 
Seisura inquieta nana Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 323, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 189, 1913. 
Distribution. Australia. Not Tasmania ? (except as an accidental straggler). 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface glossy steel-blue including the top 
of the head, hind-neck, sides of face, upper wing-coverts, upper tail-coverts, and 
tail ; back rather paler than the head and tinged with slate-blue ; flight-quills pale 
brown except the innermost secondaries, which are blackish ; throat and under- 
surface white with a tinge of buff on the breast and sides of the body ; thighs 
dusky-grey ; axillaries and under wing-coverts black ; under-surface of flight-quills 
greyish-brown ; lower aspect of tail black. Bill blue-black ; eyes and feet black. 
Total length 167 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 87, tail 79, tarsus 19. Figured. Collected 
at Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, North Queensland, on the 31st of March, 1914. 
Adult male. Similar to the above. 
Fledgelings. “ Dusky blackish-brown above, the scapulars being largely tipped with 
dull white ; quills and upper wing-coverts dull brown, the latter having buffy-white 
tips. Throat and upper-part of the breast white washed with ochreous-buff.” 
(North.) 
Nest. Cup-shaped. Composed of grass or fine bark, held together with spider’s web. 
Outside with lichen adhering. Lined with soft materials. Outside measurements 
3 to 3£ inches by 2 to 2|- deep. Inside 2 to 2| by 1| to 2 deep. 
Eggs. Clutch, three to four. White or buff, with a zone of umber and lavender spots. 
18-20 mm. by 14-15. 
Breeding-season. August to January. 
Four paintings of this species appear among the Watling drawings, and to each 
of these Latham gave a different name, but referred them all to the same 
genus, viz., Turdus, the trivial names being inquietus, dubius, volitans and 
muscicola in that order, the vernacular equivalents being Restless, Doubtful, 
Volatile and Flycatching; in connection with the third named, writing : “Is 
not uncommon ; observed, in company with another of the Grosbeak genus, to 
hover frequently about two feet from the ground, making sudden darts at some- 
thing, which on more minute attention was found to be a sort of worm, which 
this bird by a chirping note and tremulous motion of the wings, with the tail 
widely expanded, seemed to fascinate or entice out of its hole in the ground.” 
The account adds “ that the bird itself is in its turn frequently fascinated by a 
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