. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . ented in Goulds figurein his Birds of New Guinea. :Mr. R. Grant has supplied the following notes:—In the scrubs of the Herbertontable-land, we found the favourite haunt of the Ashy-fronted Robin was a packers trackor other clearing. It seems to delight in flitting from one side of the track to the other mthe sunshine, then returning back again to the shade of the surrounding foliage. Frequentlyit may be observed perched motionless on some low branch, intently scanning the it darts down to pick up some stray in
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . ented in Goulds figurein his Birds of New Guinea. :Mr. R. Grant has supplied the following notes:—In the scrubs of the Herbertontable-land, we found the favourite haunt of the Ashy-fronted Robin was a packers trackor other clearing. It seems to delight in flitting from one side of the track to the other mthe sunshine, then returning back again to the shade of the surrounding foliage. Frequentlyit may be observed perched motionless on some low branch, intently scanning the it darts down to pick up some stray insect and then returns back again to thesame place, this action being accompanied by that strange jerking motion of the tail likethat of Eopsaltria australis, and other members of the family. It is seldom seen at any greatdistance from the ground. The stomachs of those we examined contained insects of variouskinds and their larva. Their pretty cup-shaped nests, each containing two eggs, we foundbuilt in the lawyer-vines between four and five feet from the ft ASHY-FRONTED ROBIN. 176 Wr. Frank Hislop informs me that farther north, in the Bloomfield River District, theAshy-fronted Robin is only found about the tops of the mountains. The nest is placed in asmall lawyer-palm, never more than four or five feet from the ground, and one egg is usuallylaid for a sitting. Mr. R. Hislop writes me that he did not meet with this species on theEndeavour River, which is only a little farther north. The nest is an open structure, roughly formed externally of a few thin twigs, intermingledwith skeletons of leaves, wiry rootlets, and the fibre of the lawyer-vine; the inside is cup-shaped, and lined chiefly with the latter material. Externally it is decorated with mossesand large pieces of lichen. average nest measures four inches and a half in outerdiameter by four inches in depth; the inner cup two inches and a half in diameter by oneinch and an eighth in depth. Several n
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