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XXI. Account of a New Species of Mufckapa, from New South Wales. 

 By Major-General "Thomas Dav/es, F. R.S. and L. S. 



Read February 6, 1798. 



TTAVINGhad the good fortune to procure fine fpecimens of the 

 A A male and female of a lingular bird from New South Wales, 

 which the natives of that country call the Merion Binnion, or Caf- 

 fo wary-Bird, and as it is a fpecies at prefent very little known, I am 

 induced to prefent to the Prefident and Members of the Linnsean 

 Society an accurate drawing of both fpecimens, in hopes that it may 

 be found worthy of their acceptance. I am forry that I cannot at 

 the fame time furnith the Society with an accurate account of its 

 manners Even its genus appears to be rather difficult to deter- 

 mine with the certainty I could with, and I ihall therefore leave 

 that decifion to others more capable than myfelf. I have, as yet, 

 clafTed it in my own collection with the Flycatchers, as it appears 

 to me to approach nearefl to that genus. 



All the information which I have been able to procure refpedin^ 

 it, from Governor Philip, Colonel Nepean, and other Gentlemen, 

 who refided fome years in New South Wales, is, that it is found 

 about Sidney and Botany-Bay, in marlhy places, abounding with 

 long grafs and fine rufhes, in which it hides itfelf very dexteroufly ; 



that, 



