7. AilYTIS. 107 



Key to the Sjjecies. 

 a. Chest striated. 



a'. No black stripe along- cheeks. 



a''. Smaller textilis, p. 107. 



h". Larger macrura, p. 108. 



h'. A broad black cheek-stripe ; upper plumage 



more rufous striata, p. 107. 



h. Chest uniform white like the throat goyderi, p. 109. 



1. Amytis textilis. 



Maliu-us textilis, Quoy et Gaim. Toy. de F Uran. p. 107, pi. xxiii. 



tig. 1 (1824). 

 Amvtis textilis, Lesson, Traife d'Orn.^. 454, pi. 67. fig. 2 (1831); 



Gotdd, B. Austr. fol. iii. pi. 'Id, (1848): Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 166 



(1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 219 (18.50) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. 



p. 335 (1805) ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 184 (1878). 



All the upper surface dark brown, each feather with a narrow 

 stripe of white down the centre ; under surface the same, hut 

 much paler : flanks and under surface of the shoulder rust-red ; tail 

 dark brown, indistinctly barred with a stiU darker hue and edged 

 with pale brown ; irides reddish hazel ; base of lower mandible bluish 

 horn-colour, remainder of bill black ; feet flesh-brown. (Gould, I. c.) 



The male I dissected was destitute of the rusty-red colouring on 

 the flanks and under surface of the shoulder. {Gould, 1. c.) 



The unfortunate omission by the late Mr. Gould of giving measure- 

 ments of Australian birds with his descriptions has made several 

 identifications of his species very difficult. In the present instance 

 the dimensions would have been of great service in recognizing the 

 species of Amytis ; and I am by no means certain that I have rightly 

 interpreted Mr. Gould's species as figured in his ' Birds of Australia.' 

 If, however, I am correct in my identifications, then Amytis ma- 

 crura is scarcely separable from A. te.vtilis, of which it is a slightly 

 larger and paler representative. 



Tavo specimens of A. te.vtilis in the Museum measure : — 



a. Total length 6"3 inches, culmen 0*4o, wing 2-45, tail 3'25, 

 tarsus 0"95. 



b. Total length 5'8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-3, taU 2-8, tarsus 

 0-95. 



Ifah. New South Wales, Tictoria, and South Australia. 



2. Amytis striata. 



Dasyornis striatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 143. 



Amvtis striatus, Gotdd, B. Austr. fol. iii. pi. 29 (1848) ; Gray, Gen. 

 B. i. p. 166 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 219 (18-50) ; Gould, Handb. B. 

 Austr. i. p. .337 (1865): Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 205, no. 2894 

 (1869) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 184 (1878). 



