MASKED WOOD-SWALLOW. 
Artamus personatus munna Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 94, Sept. 18th, 
1912 : (Moree), New South Wales. 
Campbellornis personatus Mathews, list Birds Austr., p. 234, 1912. 
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Campbellornis personatus personatus Mathews, ib. 
Campbellornis personatus gracilis Mathews, ib. ; id., South Austr. Ornith., Vol. 3, p. 177, 
1918. 
Campbellornis personatus munna, Mathews, ib. ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 292, 1914 ; 
S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 189, 1915; id., ib., Vol. XV., p. 160, 1916; id., 
ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 22, 1918. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface slate-grey, including the crown of the 
head, sides of the neck, hind-neck, back, wings, and tail ; flight-quills vinous- 
grey on the inner webs, blackish-brown at the tips, which are narrowly edged 
with white, and black shafts to the feathers ; tail-feathers paler than the back 
with black shafts, cream-white tips, and obsolete cross-bars to some of the feathers ; 
rictal bristles numerous, short, and black ; fore-head, lores, a narrow line over 
the eye, entire sides of face, chin, and throat black ; a semi-circular line of whitish 
on the throat which extends to the sides of the face ; breast, abdomen, sides of 
body, and thighs much paler than the upper-surface and inclining to lavender- 
grey ; under tail-coverts cream-white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; 
under-surface of flight-quills pale grey ; lower aspect of tail silver-grey tipped 
with cream-white. Eyes brown, feet and tarsi lead-grey, bill bluish-white with 
blackish tip. Total length 194 mm. ; culmen 19, wing 125, tail 81, tarsus 19. 
Figured. Collected at Bore Well, West Australia, on the 9th of August, 1909. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-parts slate-grey, including the top of head, 
back, wings, and tail, tinged with dusky brown on the mantle, upper back, and 
scapulars ; inner webs of flight-quills paler and inclining to white, or greyish-white, 
the tips dark brown slightly edged with whitish, and the shafts black ; inner-webs 
of tail-feathers also pale grey, becoming cream-white at the tips, the shafts black, 
with obsolete cross-bars to some of the feathers ; rictal bristles numerous, short 
and black ; feathers behind the nostrils, lores, and feathers surrounding the eye 
black ; chin, throat, and sides of face blackish slate-colour, somewhat darker 
and more glossy on the ear-coverts ; breast, abdomen, and sides of body vinous ; 
thighs grey ; under tail-coverts cream-white like the axillaries and under wing- 
coverts ; under-surface of quills below silvery-grey, darker towards the tips ; lower 
aspect of tail also silvery-grey tipped with cream-white. Eyes dark brown ; feet 
and tarsus leaden-black. Distal third of bill and the gonys black, remainder 
bluish-grey. Total length 200 mm. ; culmen 17, wing 115, tail 77, tarsus 21. 
Figured. Collected on Marngle Creek, North-west Australia, on the 21st of May, 
1911. 
Eggs. Vary from two to three for a sitting, and closely resemble those of Artamus 
super ciliosus. A clutch of three is swollen oval in shape, ground-colour of a pale 
greenish-grey, well speckled and spotted all over with markings of umber and pale 
slate, becoming confluent at the larger end. Surface of shell fine, smooth and rather 
glossy. The clutch measures 24 mm. by 16-17. 
Nest. Very closely resembles that of Artamus superciliosus in size and shape. Frequently 
placed within hands’ reach of the ground in a small tree or a bush. 
Breeding season. August to December or January. 
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