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upper surface, with a stripe of blackish brown down the centre of 

 each feather ; wings sandy brown ; internal webs of the primaries 

 dark brown ; two centre tail-feathers reddish brown, the remainder 

 reddish brown at the base, crossed towards the extremity with a broad 

 band of brownish black and broadly tipped with white ; over the eye 

 a line of white ; ear- coverts mingled rufous and white; throat white, 

 gradually passing into the buff of the under surface ; all the feathers 

 of the under surface with a stripe of brownish black down their 

 centre ; bill blackish, lighter at the base of the under mandible ; 

 irides rufous brown ; feet blackish brown. 



Total length, 4 \ inches; bill, f ; wing, 2£; tail, 2; tarsi, J. 



Hab. South Australia. 



Closely allied to but much smaller than Calamanthus striatus. 



A new Acanthiza as 



Acanthiza inornata. Acanth. corpore suprci, alls cauddque oliva- 

 ceo-fuscis, hdc nigrcscenti-fusco late fasciatd ; corpore subtus pal- 

 lida luteolo. 

 All the upper surface, wings and tail olive brown; primaries dark 

 brown ; tail crossed by a broad band of brownish black ; all the 

 under surface light buff; irides greenish white ; bill and feet black. 

 Total length, 3£ inches; bill, J; wing, l£; tail, l£; tarsi, |£. 

 Hab. Western Australia, particularly the neighbourhood of Swan 

 River. 



A new species from Swan River, which, with the Muscicapa ma- 

 croptera of Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield, I propose to erect into a 

 new genus under the name of Microzca. 



Genus Microica. 

 Characteres generici. — Rostrum quam caput brevius, depressum, ad 

 basin latum, gonyide recto, apice incurvo et leviter denticulate 

 Nares rotundatse, ad basin rostri vibrissis validis instructam 

 positse. Al<e longae et fortes, remigum primo brevi, tertio lon- 

 gissimo. Cauda aliquant6 brevis, et fere quadrata. Tarsi medio- 

 cres, debiles. Digiti debiles ; externus quam internus valde lon- 

 gior. 



As the species now exhibited closely assimilates to the M . ma- 

 croptera, I propose to designate it as 



Microuca assimilis. Mic. superne, cauda rectricum externorum po- 



goniis inter nis per partes tres longitudinis a basifuscis. 

 All the upper surface brown ; primaries dark brown ; tail brown- 

 ish black, the tips and the terminal half of the external margins of 

 the two outer feathers white, the three next on each side are also 

 tipped with white, the extent of the white becoming less upon each 

 feather as they approach the centre of the tail; the four middle 

 feathers without the white tip ; throat, centre of the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts white, passing into pale brown on the sides of the 

 chest and flanks; irides reddish brown; bill and feet blackish brown. 

 Total length, 4f inches; bill, -fa; wing, 3|; tail, 2^; tarsi, -fy. 

 Hab. Western Australia. 



