PTILOXORHYNX'HID.t;. 



19 



Gemis -ffiLURCEDUS. 



Cahnnis, Mus. Hein. Tli. i. p. l'13, note (1850). 



.ffiluroedus viridis. 



Gracula viridis, Latham, Iiid. Orii. Sup))l. ii. p. xxviii (1801). 

 jElurcedus viridis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 385 (1881). 



The Australian Cat-bird. 



Ilah. Australia. 



72. Sternum, with shonlJer-girdlo. Richmond E-iver, N. S. W. 



Presented Inj Dr. E. P. Ramsa)/. 



Genus CHLAMYDODERA. 



Gould, B. Austr., text to pt. i. pi. 3 (1837). 



A. Flexure of mandible beneath the middle of the nasal 



aperture. 



B. Large deficiency in interorbital septum, us well as in the cranial 



wall, the two being separated Ijy a l)ony bar, the upper fora- 

 men extending as far forwards as the interorbital deficiency. 



C. Palatines with the posterior extremity prolonged. 



D. A slight backward ])rolongation of angular. 



Fig. 13. 



{".f sof f.z.p s.:.p. 



Lateral view of skull of Chlamydodvra (jxittata. — io.f., interorbital fenestra ; 

 so.f., supraorbital fenestra ; f.'^-p-, frontal z\'gomalif process ; «.:.;>., 

 squamosal zygomatic process. 



Chlamydodera guttata. 



Clilamijdera r/udala, Gould, B. Z. S. lsf;2, p. 102. 



Chlami/dodera guttata, 8harpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 390(1881). 



The Large Spotted Bower-bird. 



Hah. Interior Province and N.W. Australia. 



73. Skeleton (imperfect). 0. (". 151Ua. Oould Collection. 



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