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MUSCICAPID,®. 
South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, W. and 
S.W. Australia. {Ramsay.) 
Genus PIEZORHYNCHUS, Gould. 
PIEZORH YNCHUS NITIDUS, Gould. 
Shining Flycatcher. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 142, p. 249. 
Mr. J. A. Boyd found this bird breeding early in January 1888, 
on the Herbert River, Queensland ; the nest was built on the dead 
branch of a Ti-tree, ( Melaleuca) that had fallen into a waterhole. 
This species usually builds its nest near the ground on a 
horizontal branch or forked limb ; it is a deep cup-shaped structure 
composed of strips of bark and grasses, held together with cobwebs, 
and ornamented on the outside with small scales of bark and 
lichens, the interior being neatly lined with wiry rootlets. The 
eggs, two in number for a sitting, vary in form from swollen to 
elongated ovals, they are of a bluish-white ground colour, minutely 
spotted and blotched with olive-brown intermingled with obsolete 
spots of greyish-lilac, all of which predominate towards the larger 
end, whore they assume the form of a zone, but are not conlluent. 
The dimensions of two sets in the Australian Museum Collection 
are as follows :—length No. 1 (A) 0 - 85 x 0 - 65 ; (B) 0 - 85 x 0 - 65; 
No. 2 (C) 0-9 x 0-61 j (D) 0-9 x 0-62 inch. 
Ilab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Rockingham 
Bay, Port Denison, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 
PIEZORHYNCHUS GOULDII, G. R. Gray. 
(M. triviryata, Gould.) 
Black-fronted Flycatcher. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 153, p. 262. 
“ The nest and eggs of this very interesting species were 
f orwarded to me in 1865, from South Grafton, by the late Mr. J. 
