FALCUNCULUS. 
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Genus FALCUNCULUS, Vieillot. 
FALCUNCULUS FRONTATUS, Latham. 
Frontal Slirike-tit. 
Gould, Handb. lids. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 129, p. 228. 
“ Although this species breeds freely in the neighbourhood of 
Sydney, its nest is seldom met with, and its eggs are still rarer. 
This arises chiefly from the inaccessible places in which the birds 
build, these being mostly the very tops of the tall Eucalypti, 
so that even when found they are seldom procurable. The 
nest is a deep cup-shaped structure of line shreds of bark 
strongly woven together, strengthened with cobweb, and lined 
with grasses. The eggs seldom three in number, resemble those of 
Myiayra nitida, Gould, but are more elongated, white, with a 
few dots of greyish-lilac and slaty-black sprinkled over the surface, 
but in some cases crowded on the thicker end, or even confluent, 
forming spots or irregular short linear markings. Length (A) 
0'9 x 0'65 inch (Dr. Hurst’s Coll.); (B) O'85 x 0-63 inch ; (C) 
0'92 x 0'G4 ; B and C have -no irregular markings on the shell 
merely a few minute dots, almost black.” ( Ramsay, P.L.S ., N.S. W. 
And dories, Vol. i., p. 1146.) 
Hab. Rockingham Bay, Wide Bay District, Richmond and 
Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 
and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
FALCUNCULUS LEUCOGASTER, Gould. 
White-bellied Shrike-tit. 
Gould , llandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 130, p. 229. 
“This bird is a native of Western Australia. Gilbert, while 
staying in the Toodyay district in the month of October, found the 
nest of this species among the topmost and weakest perpendicular 
branches of a Eucalyptus, at a height of fifty feet; it was of a 
deep cup-shaped form, composed of the stringy bark of the gum- 
