WHITE-EARED ELY-CATCHER. 
when &t the nest, the male of the Spectacled acting in much the same maimer 
when bringing material to the female and when sitting in the nest after having 
placed his portion of moss or lining in position. 
The writer then proves that the eggs, described as supposed to belong to 
this bird in the Emu, Vol. XXV., p. 151, Avere those of some other bird, 
perhaps Cinclorhamphus mathewsi. 
The description of the eggs is :—Clutch two ; blunt ovals in shape ; shell 
smooth, Avith a very slight lustre, but not glossy ; Avhitish in colour, regularly 
dotted all over with small but uneven spots of reddish-broAvn. The spots on one 
egg are decidedly less numerous on the smaller end, but on the other egg they are 
more evenly distributed over the AAdiole surface, though they tend to be denser 
at the larger end, and are of a deeper colour than the spots on the other egg. 
Measurements 20 mm. by 14 to 14.5. 
Locality, Fraser Island. Queensland. 
Breeding season, October 30th (and November ?). 
The nest Avas a V-shaped structure, open at the top and placed in an upright 
fork of a small shrub. 
No. 102. 
Monarcha canescens. PEARLY FLY-CATCHER. 
Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. IX., pt. n., pi. 411 (top figure), April 15th, 1921. 
1st the same article, this author also proves that Monarcha canescens is a species, 
not a sub-species of melanopsis as I had it on p. 94 of the reference given above. 
The description of the adult female from Cape York, 27th February, 1911 ; 
the adult male and the nest and eggs AAdiich follow all belong to this bird, which 
occurs from Cape York to Cairns. While melanopsis occurs from Cape York to 
New South Wales. The description of the adult female and male, the immature, 
nest and eggs which appear first on p. 95, all belong to this species. 
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