"Soft-tailed Flycatcher", native name "Mereangeree" ---The Bird is of a very short flight, seldom exceeding / an hundred yards at most. It is so feeble & / delicate, as to be run down with the utmost ease.", followed below, in a different hand, by "Native name Mereangeree" ---"Native name Mereangeree / From the resemblance of the Feathers of the tail (when in flight) seems / too heavy for the body) to those of the Cassuary in New South Wales and / denominated the Emue, or Cassuary Titmouse." ====The upper parts of the bird are brown with black marking, while the underparts are chestnut brown. The tail consists of five long, straight feathers with separated barbs. At top left there is a row of four ink dots, with another dot above the gap between the centre two, and another one below. .... Credits: The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.