XEsrS AXD EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



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in having a longer and more upturned bill, the base of which is yellow, 

 and a imil'ornily-colourcd back and breast without apparently auy trace 

 of the brown strire seen on the feathers of those parts in S. rliri/KupUra ; 

 in other respects, pai'ticularly in the chestnut-coloured band across the 

 wings, it is very similar to that species. If it should hereafter prove 

 to be new, I would propose for it the specific name of teuuirostris." 



Regarding the Slender-billed Tree Runner, Dr. Ramsay states : — 

 " Tliis is a somewhat doubtful species, and Dr. Hans Gadow, who has 

 presiunably examined the type from Gould's collection, has made it 

 still more doubtful by placing it as identical with S. pi/taia (Gould). 



As I have specimens agreeing veiy well with Mr. Gould's 



description, from the interior provinces, obtained by Mr. James 

 Ramsay, I prefer to consider it more nearly alhcd to S. chrysoptera 

 than to any other. " The length of the bill is '7 inch. 



282. SlTTELLA I.EUCOPTEUA, Gould. (375) 



WHITE-WINGED TREE RUNNER. 



Figure— GonXA: Birds of Australia, fol , vol iv , pi 103 

 Reference.— Cai. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. viii., p. 363 



Gtoi/nipliica/ Di.'itrihulioii. — North-west Australia and Northern 

 Ten'itory. 



Nest and Eijya. — Undescribed. 



Observations. — The White-winged Tree Runner is a native of northern 

 parts of the Continent, and may be taken as a splendid representative 

 of the better-known Orange-winged species of more soutiieni forest 

 tracts. 



283. vSlTTELLA STRIATA, Gould. 



STRIATED TREE RUNNER. 



F(^i(>f. — Gould : Birds of .\ustralia. fol , supp , pi. 54 

 Reference.— CsX. Birds Brit Mus., vol. viii., p. 364. 



Previous Descriptions of Ei;gs. — Le Souef : Ibis, p. 314 (1896) ; also Victorian 

 Naturalist, fig. (i8g6) 



Gmyra phiral Distrihulion . — Northern Territory and Queensland. 



Nest. — Very similar to thai of other members of the genus ; chiefly 

 composed of cob-webs, coated outwardly with pieces of bark, and placed 

 in the forked branch of a tree. Dimensions over all, 'J inches by 3 

 inches deep; egg ca\'ity, H inches across by 1^ inches deep (Le Souef). 



