THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
heavy rain had fallen, this species was very busy in the trees in the open forest 
round and even over our camp. The heavy rains seem to drive a lot of the 
scrub birds out into the open ; the scrub gets too dank and dark for them. 
They seem to find their food amongst the branches and leaves, searching these 
assiduously, and going from branch to branch. Mr. McLennan noted a few 
pairs on the Archer River.” 
No subspecies are known, and the species is very distinct from Arses 
telescopthalmus, with which I once confused it, in the female coloration, which 
in the latter is red-brown with a black cap and white abdomen. 
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