Australian Birds in the Collectionjof the Linnean Society. 331 
This bird was procured by Mr. Brown on the South coast of 
New Holland in 1802. 
These two species very closely accord with the Javanese spe- 
cies of Pomatorhinus, P. montanus, described in these Trans- 
actions. ‘The short and rounded wings, the somewhat length- 
ened and rounded tail, and the elevated tarsi, at once point out 
the affinity. The bills of the New Holland birds are not so 
much arcuated as those of the Javanese; nor is the develope- 
ment of the nares so conspicuous. But the general accordance 
is so great, that we feel no hesitation, in the present imperfect 
state of our information at least, in referring all these species to 
the same group. The structure of the tongue of these birds, as 
well as the nature of their food, is as yet unknown : and as they 
evince in some points a very striking accordance with the 
scansorial family of Certhiade, we have some doubts whether 
they may not be more justly referred to that group than to the 
Meliphagide. "Their nares, on the other hand, indicate an affi- 
nity to the latter family, where we leave them provisionally for 
the present. To whichever of the two groups they will even- 
tually be ascertained to belong, they will be found, we make no 
doubt, to stand at the extremity of it, and to form the "— to 
the other. 
(End of Part I) 
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