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ART AMID/® . 
Like all the birds of the interior, the time of nesting is greatly 
influenced by the rainy season ; but October and November are 
the usual months for breeding. 
Hab. Gulf of Carpentaria, Rockingham Bay, Interior, Victoria 
and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
ARTAMUS MELANOPS, Gould. 
Black-faced Wood Swallow. 
Gould, Handbk. lids. Amt., Vol. i., sp. 77, p. 149. 
This species is found plentifully dispersed throughout the interior 
of South Australia, and the Darling and Albert districts of New 
South Wales. The nest is a round open structure, composed of 
fibrous roots, lined inside with grasses, and placed in a low bush. 
Eggs four in number for a sitting, varying considerably in the 
character of their markings. 
A set taken by Mr. K. IT. Bennett at Mossgiel, on the 17th 
of October 1886, are of a fleshy-white, thickly freckled and spotted 
with irregular shaped markings of reddish-brown, and others of a 
bluish-grey tint appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. 
Length (A) 0-87 x 0-69 inch; (B) 0'9 x 0-67 ; (C) 0-85 x 067 
inch ; (D) 0‘89 x 0’68 inch. 
Another set of a salmon-white ground colour are heavily blotched 
all over, but particularly towards the larger end with bright red, 
and a few indistinct obsolete spots of deep bluish-grey. Length 
(A) 0-82 x 0-68 ; (B) 0-87 x 0-67 inch ; (C) 0-89 x 0-67 inch; 
(D) 0 - 87 x 0 - 68 inch. Taken by Mr. Janies Ramsay at Tyndarie, 
November the 2nd, 1879. 
The months of September, October, and November constitute 
the breeding season of this species. (North, P.L.S., N.S. W, Vol. 
ii., '2nd Sn-irs, p. 405.) 
Hab. Derby, N. W. A., Port Darwin and Port Essington, New 
Sonth Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and 
South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
