BY E. P. RAMSAY, F.L.8. .'] 1 7 



good species will also come under this division, with Gerygone 

 insular is, Ramsay, from Lord Howe's Island. 



Next comes an Australian new genus, Heteromias, created 

 for the Pacilodryas ? cinereifrons, Ramsay ; this is a peculiar 

 anomalous form allied to the Pachycephalalincea,nd the Wood-robins, 

 Pacilodryas. 



Under Pacilodryas of Mr. Gould are placed the Australian 

 species P. cerviniventris, P. superciliosa, Eopsaltria capita, of. Gould, 

 and Eupsaltria nana of Ramsay. I cannot see the affinity of the 

 two last with the genus Pacilodryas of Gould. 



Maltjrus G-ouldi, Sharpe. 



Among the Maluridco, — Australian AVrens, — the only correction 

 I find is that the Malurus longicaudus of Gould is not identical 

 with the bird under that name mentioned by Temminck, (Man. 

 d'Orn. 1820, p. lxviii., see Sundeval Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 xviii., 1846. p. 2-52 — o). The Tasmanian bird then, which also 

 occurs in South Australia and Victoria, (the JI. longicaudatus 

 of Gould,) will be known as Malurus gouldi, Sharpe. 



Malurus dorsalis, Lew in. 



This is the Sylvia dorsalis of Lewin, Bds. of New Holl., pi. 14. 

 the Malurus brownii, of Yigv and Horsf., and the M. cruentatus 

 of Gould. 



A large series of specimens in the Australian Museum tend to 

 prove that so far from them being three distinct species, they 

 may all prove to belong to one and the same species. The N. S. 

 W. JI. nielanocepkalus are the lightest colored and have more of an 

 orange tint in the crimson of the back ; those from Rockingham 

 Bay, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, are a little smaller, and of a 

 darker tint, while those from Cape York, Port Essington, and 

 Port Darwin, are the smallest and darkest, the wings are more 

 or less brown in the younger birds, and become more or less black 



