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4. PYRRHOPYGIA. Acant. fusco-brunnea, subtus albida ; uropygio 
-rufo, caudá fascia subapicali nigra, apice albido. 
Remiges pogonio interno fuscescentes, subtus fuscæ. Rectrices, 
duæ mediæ totæ fusco-brunneæ, cæteræ apice albido; sub- 
tus fusco-cinerez, versus apicem saturatiores, apice albido.. 
Rostrum pedesque flavescentes. Longitudo portes 42 ; 
ale a carpo ad remigem quartam, 2.5 pos caudae, 21; rostri, 1; 
tarsi, 12, 
This species has a tail more elongated, and somewhat more 
graduated than the typical species of the genus. In its other | 
external characters and in the disposition of the colours it suf- 
ficiently accords with the group. By the characters of its tail 
it appears to approach the Maluri; and with Malurus exilis, a 
species described above, it may be said to form a passage between 
these two closely-allied groups*. - 
» We take this opportunity of Lire two species of this genus, which are not in 
à isa paes pasa as Reboot, cree ella, gutture pec- 
toreque fusco-striatis, uropygio rufescente, rectricibus in medio fusco-fasciatis, apice 
pallido. 
Motacilla pusilla. Whites Journ. pl. in p. 257. 
Dwarf Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. vii. p. 134. no. 161. 
In Mus. Societatis Zoologicæ. 
6. BUCHANANI. Acant. suprà olivaceo-viridis, capitis parte anteriori albo-lineato, 
subtus albida, gutture pectoreque fusco- lineatis ; ; rectricibus nigris, uropygio coc- 
Frontis aise partis anterioris plumarum rhaches albe. Lora alba. Remiges 
brunneo-fuscæ, subtus pallidiores. Tectrices inferiores albe.  Rectrices nigræ, 
exteriores pallidiores, subtus fuscescentes. Rostrum fuscum. Pedes flavescenti- 
fusci. Longitudo corporis, 44 ; ale a carpo ad remigem quartam, 2; caude, 14 
rostri, 2 ; tarsi, 3. 
In Mus. Dom. Buchanan. 
In honorem GUALTERI BUCHANAN, Armigeri, Societatis Linneana Socii, Zoologie 
studiosissimi, hanc speciem nominavimus. 
262 Genus. 
