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becoming much lighter on lower mandible ; legs greyish brown ; 

 iris brown" (G'owW). Total length 8-3 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 

 3*1, tail 4-4, tarsus 1-1. 



The type of D. australis appears to be a younger bird, as it is 

 everywhere more rufous than the one described ; across the fore 

 neck and chest there is also a band of brown. 



Female, llather smaller than the male {Gould). 



Hah. i!New South AVales. 



a. Imm. sk. Australia. Linnean Society. (T\'peof 



Dasrjoniis australis.) 



b. Ad. sk. New South Wales. John (touUI, Esq. 



c. Ad. ; d. Juv. sk. New South Wales {J. F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



T. Cockerell). vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



e,f. Ad. St. S. Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



2. Sphenura longirostris. 



Dasyornis longirostris, Gould, P. Z. .S'. 1840, p. 170; id. B. Aitsfr. iii. 



pi. 3.3 (1848); Bp. Consp. i. p. 219 (1850); Gould, Hamlb. B. 



Aiisfr. i. p. 343 (1865). 

 Spbenura longirostris, Grmj, Gen. B. i. p. 167 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 205, uo. 2899 (1869). 



Adult female. General colour above dark chocolate-brown, the 

 feathers of the head, neck, and mantle centred with grey at the 

 tips, which have a silvery appearance, and glisten when turned to 

 the light ; these glistening spots less pronounced in the middle 

 of the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts rufous- 

 brown ; wing-coverts rufous-brown with pale shaft-streaks ; quills 

 dark brown, externally edged with rufous-brown ; tail-feathers 

 dull brown, somewhat olivaceous in tint, edged narrowly with 

 reddish brown and barred across with dusky brown under certain 

 lights ; lores, eyelid, and a narrow streak over the eye dull white ; 

 ear-coverts brown ; cheeks and throat dull white, with obscure 

 dusky margins to the feathers ; lower throat and fore neck brown, 

 Mith narrow and almost oljsolete margins of dusky ; lower flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts rather more rufous-brown ; centre 

 of breast and abdomen white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 dull reddish brown, the lower series dusky brown ; quills dusky 

 brown below, light rufous along the margin of the inner web ; 

 " upper mandible brown, lower mandible bluish green at the tip 

 and greenish white at base : legs bluish grey ; iris bright reddish 

 brown " (G'o((W). Total length 6*8 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-5, 

 tail 3'4, tarsus 0-85. 



Sexes alike {Gould). 



Hab. Western Australia. 



a. 2ad.sk. Albany, Kino: George's Sound, Ey ton Collection. 



June 10, is43 {J. Goidd). 



b. Ad. sk. West Australia {J. T. Cocke- F. D. Godman and O. Sal- 



rell). viu, Esqrs. [P.]. 



