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the back and tertiaries ; wings brown, margined with rufous ; over 

 the eye a stripe of buff ; chin white ; under surface pale buff ; throat 

 crossed by a series of dark brown spots, arranged in a crescentic 

 form ; under surface of the wing rufous ; bill flesh-brown at the base 

 and dark brown at the tip ; feet fleshy brown. 



Total length, b\ inches; bill, \', wing, 2J; tail, 2|^; tarsi, J. 



Hab. Interior of New South Wales. 



Remark. — Nearly allied to, but smaller than, the Mirafra Javanica 

 of Dr. Horsfield. 



Amytis macrourus, Gould. Amy. corpore superiore fusco ; plumis 



singulis lined angustd albd longitudinaliter per medium ornatis ; 



corpore inferiore nee aliter nisi palUdius picto ; scapulis infra ru- 



biginosis ; caudd fused brunneo-marginatd. 



Upper surface brown, each feather with a narrow stripe of white 



down the centre ; under surface the same, but much paler ; under 



surface of the shoulder pale rusty red ; tail brown, margined with 



pale brown ; irides hazel ; base of the lower mandible horn-colour, 



remainder of the bill black ; feet flesh-brown. 



Total length, 7 inches ; bill, \ ; wing, 2|^ ; tail, 4J ; tarsi, 1 . 

 Hab. Western Australia. 



Remark. — This is a more robust species than the two previously 

 known, viz. A. texilis and A. striatus, from which it may also be 

 distinguished by the much greater length and size of the tail. 



Sericornis maculatus, Gould. Ser. corpore superiore, alis, can- 

 ddque, fuscis ; caudd ad apicem latdfascid nigro-fuscd transversim 

 ornatd ; rectricibus exiernis vix albo ad apices notatis ; alis spuriis 

 nigris ; internis pennarum pogoniis albo-marginatis ; corpore in- 

 feriore griseo-albo. 

 Upper surface, wings and tail brown, the latter crossed near the 

 tip with a broad band of blackish brown, and the outer feathers 

 slightly tipped with white ; forehead and lores deep black ; stripe 

 above and a small patch below the eye white ; spurious wing-feathers 

 black, margined on their inner webs with white ; under surface in 

 some greyish white, in others washed with yellow ; the feathers of 

 the throat and chest spotted with black on a light ground ; irides 

 greenish white. 



Female. — Diff^ers in having the lores brown, and in being some- 

 what smaller than the male. 



Total length, ^^ inches ; bill, f ; wing, 2^ j tail, 2 ; tarsi, §. 

 Hab. Western and Southern Australia. 



Sericornis osculans, Gould. Ser. (Mas) corpore superiore, alis 



cauddque brunneis ; rectricibus, duobus intermediis exceptis,fascid 



nigra ad extremitatem ornatis ; alis spuriis nigris albo -mar ginatis ; 



guld et medio abdomine albis, griseo vel flavo tinctis ; paucis 



oblongis maculis in guld nigris. 



Male. — Upper surface, wings and tail dark brown, all but the 



two centre feathers of the latter crossed by a band of black near the 



extremity ; spurious wing-feathers black, margined with white ; lores 



black, above which on each side a patch of white continued in a fine 



