Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 87. 
PSEUDOGERYGONE FLA VIDA. 
Family MUSGICAPIDjE. 
FAIRY WARBLER. 
(Plate 65.) 
Gerygone flavida Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., pt. i., p. 53, July, 1877 : Upper 
Herbert River, near Rockingham Bay, North Queensland (read March 26th, 1877) ; 
Chisholm, Emu, Vol. XXIV., pt. 3, p. 161, Feb. 20th, 1925, and coloured plate 24. Same 
birds. 
Pseudogerygone palpebrosa Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. VIII., pt. m., p. 177 (pi. 387), Aug. 18th, 
1920 : Partim. 
Distribution. Herbert River district, North Queensland. 
Adult male. Type of flavida. Upper-surface dark greenish-olive ; upper tail-coverts olive-brown ; 
primaries and secondaries ash-brown, narrowly margined on the outer web with olive-green ; 
middle tail-feathers like the back, remainder of the tail dark ash-brown, margined on the 
outer web with olive and widely tipped with olive-green ; lores, a ring round the eye, and a 
pronounced moustachial streak white ; chin and throat yellowish-grey, remainder of the 
under-surface primrose-yellow, darker on the sides and flanks ; axillaries and under¬ 
wing-coverts very light yellow ; eyes hazel ; bill black, feet and legs blac.kish-brown. Total 
length 110 mm.: wing 57, culmen 9, tarsus 18, tail 42. Figured (lower figures). Collected 
on the Upper Herbert River, near Rockingham Bay, North Queensland, in March, 1874. 
Adult female . Differs from the adult male in being a little lighter on the upper-surface. The 
white moustachial streak is less pronounced. The outer web of the primaries edged with a 
light greyish-olive colour. Total length 90 mm. : wing 51, culmen 9, tarsus 18, tail 40. 
Written on the label is Gerygone flavida. Type of $ E.P.R., Broadbent Coll., Cairns, 
two top figures. 
Another (adult female ?) marked male. The whole of the upper-parts olive-green, inclining to 
rufous on the upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts and secondaries slightly edged with lighter 
olive ; primaries ash-brown, margined on the outer web with olive-yellow ; tail like the 
back ; a ring of yellowish-white feathers surrounding the eye ; lores yellowish-white ; chin 
whitish ; throat faintly washed with yellow ; cheeks olive-yellow ; remainder of the 
under-surface primrose-yellow, shaded with orange on the chest ; axillaries and under 
wing-coverts lighter yellow. Total length 105 mm. : wing 53, culmen 10, tarsus 18, tail 42. 
Figured. Collected at Cardwell, North Queensland. 
Nest. A small domed structure with an entrance on the side, hooded over with a small verandah, 
and usually a small narrow' tail hangs from the bottom of the nest. Constructed o sma 
strips of soft bark and bound together with cobwebs. Measurement of nest over all (without 
tail) nearly five inches, the tail sometimes being nearly as long as the nest. The structure 
is generally placed in a small tree or bush, and suspended from the end of a t In wig. 
Eggs. Two to three eggs form the clutch. A pair taken near Cardwell, at the northern end of 
Hinchinbrook Island, North Queensland, on the 15th of October, 1908, is of a very pale 
pinkish-white ground-colour rather well spotted and speckled (particu ai y a ic aigei 
end) with pale to dark reddish-brown. Oval in shape, rather pointed at the smaller encl, 
surface of shell fine and smooth and slightly glossy. The pair measures (a) 1 / by mm. , 
(6) 17 to 12 mm. 
Breeding-season. October. 
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