NORFOLK ISLAND CATERPILLAR-CATCHER. 
isabelline-buff ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white tinged with rosy. Bill black, 
eyes dark brown, feet bluish-black. Total length 192 mm.: culmen 12, wing 91, tail 86, 
tarsus 25. Collected at Dixey, Norfolk Island, on the 28th of April, 1913. 
Immature male. Tore-head, crown of the head and occiput black, each feather broadly margined 
at the extremity with buff ; back of the neck, scapulars and mantle deep blackish-brown, 
each feather tipped with whitish-buff ; feathers of the rump very dense and white, slightly 
tinged with pale buff ; upper tail-coverts brownish tipped with pale buff ; primaries and 
secondaries blackish-buff, narrowly margined on the outer web with reddish-buff and with 
their bases white ; the outer pair'" of tail-feathers for the greater part white, black at the 
base ; the middle pair mostly black with a spot of white at the tip ; chin, throat and sides 
of the neck white, with a very few indistinct spots of blackish-brown ; fore-neck rich 
tawny-buff ; remainder of the underparts including the under wing-coverts and axillaries 
wdiite. Bill brownish-black, eyes blue-grey, feet greyish-black. Collected at Stockyard 
Creek, Norfolk Island, on the 31st of October, 1912. 
Nest and eggs. The nests arc placed in the forks of branches covered with the two lichens, Usnea 
articulata and Parmelia perlata. They consist of lichens, moss, thin stalks, fibres, cobwebs, 
small pieces of paper and threads of thin darning-wool, with no particular lining. They are 
rather flat. The eggs are 1 to 3 in number, and were found on the 23rd of October, 1912, 
21st of November, 1912, and the 20th of December, 1912. They resemble eggs of the 
Australian Lalage and are pale green, slightly glossy, spotted and blotched, especially round 
the thick end, with deep rufous-brown and some paler deeper lying patches. They measure : 
22 X 17, 22T X 17-2, 21 X 165 ; 22 X 17’6 ; 23 X 17, 23 X 17 T ; 22 X 17‘5, 22 X 17, 
22-5 X 17-2 ; 22 X 18, 23 X 175 mm. 
Breeding-season. October to December. 
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