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below, dark fulvous and chocolate-brown, barred indistinctly, 

 outer series barred with dark brown and white ; total length, 9*5 

 to 10 in. ; wing, 6-5 ; tail, 3 '8 ; tarsus, 1 in. ; culmen, 1 in. ; 

 bill from cere to tij), 0*5. 



JTab. Goldie Eiver, 30 miles inland. 



? Tanysiptera mympha, juv. 



The young bird is of a uniform dull brown, the chest and 

 upper tail-coverts vermilion-red ; wings, blackish with the outer 

 webs of the quills bluish, and the tips of the coverts light rufous- 

 brown ; two centre tail feathers blue, with white tips ; bill coral 

 red ; legs and feet, reddish-brown. This may eventually prove 

 to be the young of a more allied species. 



Sab. Goldie Eiver, 30 miles inland. 



? Ehectes ( Oreoica ?J brunnciceps, Salvadori. 



Upper surface dull earthy-brown ; the upper tail-coverts and 

 tail darker, and of a rich rufous-brown, hind neck and cheeks 

 rufous-brown ; all the under surface pale rufous, deeper rufous 

 on the sides of the neck and chest ; head with erect crest, inclining 

 to rufous-brown ; bill, black ; legs, dull-brown ; length, 8'6 ; 

 wing, 4-4 ; tail, 3*5 ; tarsus, 1-5 ; bill from forehead, 1 in. 



Mr. Goldie informs me that this bird has a loud ringing bell- 

 like note, from which it became known to his party as " Bell-bird." 



The bill is comparatively short, strong, laterally compressed, 

 somewhat wedge-shaped, like that of Oreoica. length of bill, 1 

 in.; culmen, 1*05; height of mandibles at nostrils, 0*4 ; breadth, 

 0-25 ; length from nostril to tip, 0*55 ; from tip of upper mandible 

 to gape, 1*1 in. First quill half the length of the fifth, which is 

 longest ; fifth, sixth, and seventh nearly equal ; the second quill 

 distinctly shorter than the longest secondary. 



Hob. Goldie Eiver, 30 miles inland, 



