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MUSCICAPID.2E. 
MYIAGRA CONCINNA, Gould. 
Pretty Flycatcher. 
Gould, Handbk. lids. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 145, p. 254. 
The nest is a neat cup-shaped structure of bark with a few fine 
grasses neatly interwoven, and placed on a horizontal bough 
usually over a fork or junction of two branches; the whole is 
cemented together with cobweb and scales of lichens, Arc. The 
eggs, three in numher, of a delicate bluish-white when fresh, with 
a strongly defined band of spots and dots of wood-brown to sienna 
or yellowish umber, here and there a dot of slaty-blue appearing 
as if beneath the surface. Length (A) O'G-1 x 0-53 inch; (B) 
065 x 052 inch. (Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. vii., p. 48.) 
dial). Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Rockingham Bay, Dawson River. (Ramsay.) 
MYIAGRA NITIDA, Gould. 
Shining Flycatcher. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 146, p. 255. 
The nest of this species is similar to those of other members of 
the genus, and is placed in like situations. Specimens of these 
eggs just received from Mr. E. D. Atkinson, of Table Cape, 
Tasmania, are in form swollen ovals, of a faint greenish-white, 
with a well defined zone of irregularly shaped spots and blotches 
of yellowish-umber, umber-brown, and obsolete markings of 
purplish-grey on the thicker end, a few dots of the same colour 
being scattered over the remainder of the surface of the shell. 
Length (A) 077 x 0-58 inch ; (B) 0‘78 x 0-58 inch. 
Hob. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 
District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South 
Wales, Interior, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. 
(Ramsay.) 
