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ABTAMIDiE. 
Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 
Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 
ARTAMUS PERSONATUS, Gould. 
Masked Wood Swallow. 
Gould, Handbk. lids. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 78, p. 150. 
The Masked Wood Swallow builds a very frail structure of fine 
twigs and grasses in some convenient fork of a low tree, or in the 
hollow in the top of a stump. Eggs two or three in number ; 
ground colour greyish-white clouded all over with blotches of light 
brown, a few obsolete spots of grey appearing on the undersurface 
of the shell. Dimensions of a set of three taken by Mr. James 
Ramsay at Tyndarie, October 1878. Length (A) 0'84 x 0‘67 
inch; (B) 0'83 x 0'65 inch; (C) 0 - 81 x 0'67 inch. 
This species is to be found breeding in company with Artamus 
superciliosus. On one occasion Mr. George Barnard of 
Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Queensland, found the male of A. 
superciliosus paired with the female of A. personatus. 
Hab. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 
Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and 
South Australia, West and South-West Australia, {liamsay.) 
ARTAMUS CINEREUS, Vieillot. 
Grey -breasted Wood Swallow. 
Gould, Handbk. lids. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 75, p. 147. 
I have never seen this bird in any collection, The following 
description of the nidification of this species is taken from Mi. 
Gould’s Handbook to the Birds of Australia: — “It breeds in 
October and November, making a round compact nest, in some 
instances of fibrous roots, lined with fine hair-like grasses ; in 
