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Male. — Crown of the head blackish-brown, each feather margined 

 with grayish brown ; lores and a circle surrounding the eye reddish 

 chestnut ; back brown ; sides of the neck, lower part of the back, and 

 upper tail-coverts, gray ; primaries blackish brown at the base, and 

 light brown at the tip, all but the first crossed in the centre by a 

 broad band of buff, to which succeeds another broad band of black- 

 ish brown ; two centre tail-feathers gray, the remainder blackish 

 brown, largely tipped with light gray ; chin dull white, passing into 

 grayish brown on the chest ; the remainder of the under surface 

 grayish brown, each feather having a broad stripe of dull white, 

 bounded on either side with black running down the centre ; the 

 lines becoming blended, indistinct, and tinged with buff on the cen- 

 tre of the abdomen ; under tail- coverts huffy white, crossed by irre- 

 gular bars of black ; irides brown ; bill and feet black. 



The female differs in having the chestnut marking round the eye 

 much richer, and in having, in place of the grayish brown on the 

 breast, a series of feathers of a rusty red colon/, with a broad stripe 

 of dull white down their middles, the stripes appearing to radiate 

 from a common centre : in all other particulars her plumage resem- 

 bles that of the male. 



Total length, 5 inches ; bill, J ; wing, 3J ; tail, 2|^ ; tarsi, |. 



Hab. New South Wales. 



Climacteris rufa. Clim. gutture plumis auricularihus , et ab- 

 domine ferrugineis. 



Male. — Crown of the head and all the upper surface and wings, 

 dark brown, tinged with rufous on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 primaries brown, all but the first crossed by a broad band of rufous, 

 to which succeeds a second broad band of dark brown ; two centre tail- 

 feathers brown, indistinctly barred with a darker hue ; the remainder 

 pale rufous, crossed by a broad band of blackish brown, and tipped 

 with pale brown ; line over the eye, lores, ear-coverts, throat, and 

 under surface of the shoulder rust-brown ; chest crossed by an indi- 

 stinct band of rufous brown, each feather with a stripe of huffy white, 

 bounded on each side with a line of black down the centre ; the re- 

 mainder of the under surface deep rust-red, with a faint line of huffy 

 white down the centre of each feather, the white line being lost on 

 the flanks and vent ; under tail-coverts light rufous, with a double 

 spot of blackish brown at intervals along the stem ; irides dark red- 

 dish brown ; bill and feet blackish brown. 



Female rather less in size ; in colour the same as the male, but 

 much lighter, without the bounding line of black on each side of the 

 buff stripes on the breast, and having only an indication of the double 

 spots on the under tail-coverts. 



Total length, 6 inches ; bill J ; wing, 3^ ; tail, 2^ ; tarsi, J. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



And a new and beautiful Ocypterus, by far the best-marked species 

 of the genus, as 



Ocypterus personatus. Ocypt. guld et plumis auricularibus ni» 

 gris : corpore subtus in toto cinereo. 



