CATERPILLAR-CATCHER. 
Adult male. General colour on both the under- and upper-surface slate-grey ; median 
and greater upper wing-coverts black fringed with slate-grey on the outer webs ; 
bastard- wing and primary-coverts black ; flight-quills also black fringed on the 
outer webs with slate-grey and broadly margined with white on the inner ones ; 
middle tail-feathers slate-grey with a black spot at the tip which is narrowly edged 
with grey, the outer feathers black tipped with slate-grey ; sides of face, including 
the lores and ear-coverts black ; under-surface of flight-quills white at the base and 
blackish on the apical portion ; lower aspect of tail blackish with slightly paler 
tips to the outer feathers. Eyes dusky, bill, feet and legs black. Total length 
243 mm. ; culmen 20, wing 131, tail 97, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected near Cairns, 
North Queensland, in October 1911. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper parts ash-grey including the top of the head, 
sides of the face, hind-neck, entire back, upper tail-coverts, scapulars and upper 
wing-coverts, the greater series of the last fringed with white and inclining to brown 
on the outer feathers ; bastard-wing blackish narrowly edged with white ; primary- 
coverts blackish-brown fringed with grey which becomes paler and inclining to 
white at the tips ; flight-quills blackish fringed with white, much more broadly 
on the inner webs ; the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts fringed with 
greyish-white at the tips ; middle tail-feathers greyish-brown narrowly edged with 
whitish at the tips, which becomes more extensive on some of the lateral feathers, 
some of the outer feathers darker and inclining to blackish ; lores and feathers 
in front of the eye inclining to black ; chin, throat, and upper-breast grey with 
indications of greyish- white bars ; lower-breast and sides of body whitish with narrow 
blackish cross-bars, some of which are slightly acuminate in the middle of the 
feathers, these bars become almost obsolete on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; 
thighs grey with whitish tips to the feathers ; axillaries, and under wing-coverts 
white with a few grey dots on the marginal coverts ; under-surface of flight-quills 
greyish-brown with whitish inner margins ; lower aspect of tail grey with white 
shafts and more or less white at the tips of the feathers. Eyes black ; feet slate. 
Bill blackish, with lower base brown. Wing 127 mm. Figured. Collected at 
the Cable Station, Cape York, North Queensland, on the 18th of April, 1913. 
Nestling. “ Feathers of the upper-parts brown, slightly darker on the head and all largely 
tipped with white ; wings dark brown, the secondaries broadly edged with light 
rufous, tail-feathers buff, with blackish cross-bars ; all the under-surface dull white, 
the feathers of the chest and breast with a blackish shaft-line terminating in a tear- 
shaped spot near the tip ; bill fleshy-brown ; legs and feet pale fleshy-brown.” 
Wing 58 mm. (North.) \\ 
Nest. Small and shallow. Composed of fine pieces of bark, twigs, etc., held together 
with spider’s web. Decorated on the outside with pieces of lichen. Dimension 
outside 3 1 inches by 2 deep. Inside 2 by |-| deep. 
Eggs. Clutch, one. Ground-colour greenish or bluish, blotched all over with umber spots 
or blotches, and some of lavender. 30-32 mm. by 20. 
Breeding-season. October to January. 
Almost exactly the same story as to its early nomination belongs to this species 
as to the preceding. Jardine named it Graucalus tenuirostris, and Riippell 
renamed it Ceblepyris jardinii , as he considered Jardine’s name invalid. It is 
not so according to our present day usage. 
Gould wrote : “ The only parts of Australia wherein this species has 
been observed are Moreton Bay and the Liverpool Range in New South Wales, 
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