It usually rears two or three broods in the year, the period of nidification commencing in August and ending in February.
The male has the head, throat and upper surface black; forehead snowy white; a longitudinal and two oblique bands of white on the wings; breast and upper part of the belly scarlet; lower part of the belly dull white; irides very dark brown; bill and feet black.
The female has all the upper and under surface brown, with the breast strongly tinged with red.
The Plate represents a male and female of the natural size, perched on a sprig of a species of Corea, which I found growing on Kangaroo Island.
PETROICA ERYTHROGASTER.
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith. Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
PETROICA ERYTHROGASTRA.
Norfolk Island Robin.
Muscicapa erythrogastra, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. ii. p. 479.—Gmel. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 944.
—— multicolor, Gmel. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 944.
Red-bellied Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. iii. p. 343. pl. 50.—Ib. Supp., vol. ii. p. 216.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. x. p. 400. pl. 32.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. vi. p. 209. pl. C.—Shaw, Nat. Misc., pl. 147.