100 TrUTELIID^. 



2. Dromaeocercus seebohmi. 



Dromseocercus seebohmi, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 177; Milne- 

 Edicards ^- Grandid. in Grandid, Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. p. 334, 

 pi. 131 A. 



AcluTt. General colour above dark brown, witli edges of lighter 

 brown, producing a mottled appearance, the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts more uniform ; tail-feathers rufous-brown, with stiffened 

 black shafts, the feathers loose-webbed, as is usual in this genus ; 

 wing-coverts and quills blackish brown, margined with lighter 

 brown ; lores whitish ; ear-coverts and sides of neck ashy brown ; 

 under surface of body dull white, shaded with ashy brown on the 

 sides of the breast ; sides of body and under tail-coverts rather more 

 fulvous-brown ; fore neck with small but distinct spots of dusky 

 brown, the sides of the body more largely and distinctly streaked ; 

 under wing-coverts ash}- brown, the edge of the wing white ; quills 

 duU brown below, fulvescent along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 5-9 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 1*95, tail 3"1, tarsus 0'7. 



Hah. Confined to Madagascar, where it is said to be found not 

 far from Antananarivo. M. Grandidier believes that its habitat is 

 Pianarantsoa. 



a. Ad. sk. Antananarivo. Mr. Lormier [C.]. (Type 



of species.) 



b, c. Ad. ; d. Juv. sk. Antananarivo. Mr. Lormier [C.]. 



3. STIPITURUS. 



Type. 



Stipiturus, Lesson, Traite, p. 414 (1831) S. malachm'us. 



Bill of Stipiturus malackurus. 

 Range . Confined to Australia. 



1. Stipiturus malacurus. 



Muscicapa malachura, Shaw, Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 242, pi. 21 



(1798) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. Stippl. p. lii (1801). 

 Soft-tailed Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Sijn. Siqipl n. p. 224 (1801). 

 Malurus palustris, Vieill. N. Did. d'Hist. Nat. xx. p. 213 (1818). 

 Malurus malachurus, Viff. ^- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 224 



(1827). 

 Stipiturus malachurus. Less. Traite., p. 415 (1831) ; Goxdd, B. Austr. 



fol. iii. pi. 31 (1848) ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 166 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 219 (1850) ; Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 42 (1850) ; Gould, 



