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 160. Cisticola exilis (Vig. & Horsf.). 



Malurus exilis Vigors & Horsf., Tranx. Limi. Soc. xv. p. 223 (1827 — ex Latham : Australia). 



S, Ord River Station, E. Kimberley, 21. v. 1902 (No. R. 415). 



?, Derby, 19. xii. 1901 (No. R. 373). 



?, Sonth Alligator River, 15. xi. 1902 (No. 744). 



S dS, Eureka, January 1903 (Nos. 987, 98S, 989). 



I'll. Ephthianura tricolor (ionld. 



Ephlhiuimm tricolor Gould, P.Z.S. 1840. p. 150 (" Hab. ?") 



S iiumat., Soda Spring, Kimberley, 24. iv. 1902 (No. R. 437) " Iris whit<', bill 

 and feet brown." 



162. Ephthianura crocea Cast. & Rams. 



EjMhiaiiara crocea Castelo. & Ramsay, Proo. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales i. p. 380 (1877 — Norman Riveri 

 Gulf of Carpentaria). 



5 £?(?, 2 ? ?, Alligator River, September 1903 (Nos. 1637 to 1643). "Iris 

 white, legs brown." " Canght on the open flats and plains near mangrove swamps." 



163. Grallina picata (Lath.). 



Graciila picata Latham, Jutl. <)ni. Suppl. p. .\.xix (1801 — Australia). 



cJ, Nuliagine, N.W. Australia, 20. iv. I'.iDl (No. U. 96). 

 ? juv., Tayldr's (Jreek, Nuliagine, 15. iv. 1901 (No. R. 97). 

 (?, Hall's Creek Road, 27. iv. 19ii2 (No. R. 425). 



1 (?, 3 ? ?, Eureka, Northern Territory, January and February 19ii3 (Nos. 

 R. 980, 981, 1080, 1081). 



3 ? ? , Alligator River, June and September 1903 (Nos. 1263, 1648, 1649). 

 ?, Mary River, Northern Territory, 3. x. 1902 (No. 746). 



164. CoUuricincla brunnea (ionld. 



Oillurk-iiiclu brunnea Gould, P.Z.S. 1840. p. 164 (N.W. Australia). 



c?, George's Creek, Northern Territory, 8. vii. 1902 (No. R. 626). 

 S, Cullen River, Northern Territory, 24. vii. 1902 (No. R. 627). 

 ¥, Mary River, Northern Territory, 6. x. 19(12 (No. 727). 

 S ? , Eureka, Northern Territory, 9. i., 7. ii. 1903 (Nos. 1071, 1076). 



2 cJcJ, 2 ? ?, South Alligator River, Ajiril, May, June 1903 (Nos. 1313, 1314, 

 1315, 1317). 



Dr. Sharpe's jiallidirostris was doubtless described in error, as lie did not 

 know the sexes of C. brunnea, the male of which has a black bill, the female a 

 whitish one.* 



* In Kor. Zuiil. 1M3, p. iia, Dr. Ruthschild and I united the specimens from New Guinea with 

 h-ninnea. From Mr. North's notes it appears that ('. superritiosa is the same as the Papuan torn], which 

 is spread over parts of New Guinea and the Cape Vork Peninsula. Unfortunately we have no material 

 from Cape York for comparison, but Uie Papuan birds differ from our hriiidtfa from N.W. Australia in 

 having a longer and less high bill. 



