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Numenius uropygialis. Num. vertice fusco, lined luteold angustd 

 et inaquali per medium current e ; uropygio et tectricibus caudte 

 fusco alboque fasciatis . 



Crown of the head brown, with a narrow irregular stripe of bufiy 

 white down the centre ; lores and line behind the eye brown ; line 

 over the eye, neck and breast buffy white, with a brown line down 

 the centre of each feather, the brown colour predominating ; centre 

 of the back and scapularies dark olive spotted on their margins with 

 light buff; wing-coverts the same, but lighter and presenting a mot- 

 tled appearance ; primaries blackish brown with white shafts ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts barred with brown and white; tail pale brown 

 barred with dark brown ; chin, lower part of the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts white ; bill blackish horn-colour, fleshy at the base ; feet 

 grayish black. 



Total length, 15 inches; bill, 3; wing, 9|; tail, 3; tarsi, 2^. 



Hab. South coast of Australia. 



Nearly allied to N. Phceopus but distinguished from that species 

 by the brown colouring of the rump. 



Numenius minutus. Num. uropygio tectricibusque caudte intense 

 fuscis ; marginibus plumarum albo-guttatis ; corpore subtits luteolo. 



Forehead dark brown mottled with buff; lores and line behind 

 the eye buff; back, sides and front of the neck buff, with a fine line 

 of brown down the centre of each feather ; all the upper surface 

 blackish brown, with a series of triangular spots round the margins 

 of the feathers of a sandy buff; shoulders, primaries and secondaries 

 blackish brown, the latter with white shafts ; rump and tail- coverts 

 dark brown spotted with white on the margins ; tail grayish brown 

 barred with black ; chin white ; under surface light buff ; flanks and 

 under surface of the wing deep buff, regularly barred with arrow- 

 shaped marks of brown ; irides black ; bill fleshy at the base, olive 

 brown at the tip ; feet bluish flesh-colour. 



Total length, 12 inches; bill, If; wing, 7; tail, 3; tarsi, lj. 



Hab. New South Wales. 



This is one of the smallest species of the genus. I never but 

 once saw a flock of this bird ; out of which I killed two, on the race- 

 course at Maitland on the Upper Hunter. 



Porphyrio bellus. Porph. capite, collo et corpore subtiis intense 

 cteruleis; facie, gutture et pectore virescenti-cceruleis ; dor so, alis 

 cauddque e fusco nigris. 



Head, neck and all the under surface deep blue; sides of the face, 

 front of the throat and chest greenish blue; back, wings and tail 

 brownish black ; shoulder and edge of the wing and outer margins 

 of the primaries greenish blue ; under tail-coverts white ; irides 

 bright red ; bill red ; legs grass-green, except the knees, lower part 

 of the tarsi and inside of the feet, which are dark greenish gray. 



Total length, 18 inches; bill, If; wing 10^; tail, 4£; tarsi, 3£. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



Otis Australasianus. Ot. vertice et occipite nigris ; capitis la- 

 teribus, collo et pectore e cinereo-albis fusco adspersis ; singulis 

 Ann. §■ Mag. N. Hist. Vol. viii. L 



