320 TIMELIIDiE. 



breast blackish-brown, conspicuously mottled with pale brown, the feathers on the abdomen 

 broadly tipped with brownish-white, and those on the sides of the body with chocolate-brown; 

 under tail-coverts blackish. Wing 4-4 mches. 



Nearly adult birds of both sexes have the feathers of the breast and abdomen stained with 

 rusty-brown; and a young male now before me has a few pure white feathers intermingled 

 with the black ones on the sides of the head and the hind-neck. 



From the date of taking the egg in the collection of Mr. French, Junr., it is apparent 

 that this species, like its southern ally Ortltoiiyx temmincki, is an autumn and winter breeder. 

 Messrs. Cairn and Grant procured several recently-fledged birds early in June, also fresh eggs 

 during the same month, and as late as the middle of August. 



Drymaoedus brunneipygius. 



SCEUB-KOBIN. 

 Drymodes brunneopygia, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, IStO, p. 170; id., Bds. Austr., fol., Vol. Ill, pi. 

 10 (1848); id., Handhk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 290 (186.^)); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 

 Vol. VII , p. 343 (1883). 

 Dryinandus brunnaipygius, Sharpe. llaiul-I. I'.ds., Vol. 1\., p. 1 (11)03). 



Adult male — General colonr above brown, the feathers of the back indistinctly margined tvilh 

 ashy-brown at the tips; the rump slightly tinged with rufous-brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back; the median and greater coverts dark brown, externally margined ivith brown and tipped tvith 

 ashy-while ; quills dark brown, all except the outermost primaries and innermost secondaries crossed 

 near the base of the inner tveh rvith a narrow ivhite bar; outer icbs of the primaries near the middle 

 externally edged with ashywhit", those of the secondaries margined with fulvous brown; upper tail- 

 coverts rufous-brown; tail feathers brown, externally margined with rufous-brown, and having the 

 lateral feathers tipped with white ; lores and a ring of feathers around the eye dull brownish-white, 

 the latter broken on the upper and anterior portions by a small blackish spot; ear-coverts brorvn, 

 blackish at the base; all the under surface ashy-brown, paler on the throat, browner on the chest and 

 sides of the body ; centre of the abdomen and vent whitish; under tail-coverts taiunybroivn ; bill dark 

 broivn; legs and feet dark brown. Total length 8-2 inches, wing 3-7, tail i' 2, bill H, tar.ius IJf.^. 



Adult female — Similar in plumage to the male, but smaller. 



Distribution. — New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia. 

 AT^HE range of this ground-frequenting species e.xtends throughout the dry scrubby portion 

 -L of South-western New South Wales into North-western Victoria, and the Murray 

 scrub in the adjoining portion of South Australia, where Gould procured the type, its range 

 extending into Western Australia. Specimens in the .Australian Museum, procured by Mr. 

 George Masters at Mongup, Salt River, Western Australia, in January and February, 1869, 

 are indistinguishable from examples obtained in South-western New South Wales and the 

 Murray scrub in South Australia. One example in the Macleay Museum, from King George's 

 Sound, is darker than average examples from Eastern .\ustralia. 



Gould's vernacular name of "Scrub-Robin" for the different species of this genus is not 

 an appropriate one, for it tends to give an impression tliat they belong to the Muscicapidas. 

 "Northern Scrub-Robin," too, would more fittingly distinguish Drymaadtis stipcrciliaris than 

 that of "Eastern Scrub-Robin," for it is found only in the extreme northern portion of the 

 Cape York Peninsula. 



