249 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. Honsrrrrp's Description of the 
7. Austratis. Pac. supra cinerea, dorso infimo flavescente ; sub- 
tus flava, remigibus rectricibusque fuscis. 
Muscicapa australis. Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. 1. no. 2. 
Southern Motacilla. Whites Voy. pl. in p. 239. 
Southern Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Hist. vi. p. 216. no. 102. 
** This bird," Mr. Caley says, ‘is called yellow Robin by the 
colonists. It is an inhabitant of brushes." A bird in the col- 
lection, which has in every respect the appearance of the present 
species, with the exception of the throat being whitish instead 
of yellow, was met with by Mr. Brown on the South coast. It 
is probably the young of the species. | : 
'The two last species deviate seb in the form of their 
bills from the other species of this genus. "l'hose members are 
much more slender and less arched at the culmen than in the 
typical birds. In other characters the two species sufficiently 
. accord with the group. We leave them at the extremity of it 
for the present, not being willing to speak too decisively on a 
subject in which our materials are scanty and not in the best 
order for examination. The two species evince a very strong 
approximation to the Muscicapide. 
Fam. MvscicAPIDA. > 
Cenur MUSCICAPA. "Linn. et xU 
If we select the Muscicapa atricapilla of Linnæus as the type 
of the extensive family of Muscicapide, and the representative 
of the true Muscicapa,—an arrangement, which from our fami- 
liarity with the species, and from its exhibiting characters the 
most remote from those of all the neighbouring groups, appears 
to be the most expedient,—little deviation will be found to exist 
between some of the Australian species of the family and the 
European type. "The three following species belonging to the 
Society's 
