108 TIJIELIID^. 



Adult. General colour above cLestuut-red, plainly striated with 

 white, each white stripe being laterally bordered ; rump dull chest- 

 nut and less distinctly striated ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 lesser and median wing-coverts dusky brown, ashy grey externally 

 and mesially streaked with white ; bastard-wing feathers brown, 

 edged with white ; primary-coverts brown, with white shafts and 

 externally chestnut ; (]uills brown, externally washed with reddish 

 brown, ashy on the primaries, the outer one being margined with 

 white, and chestnut at base of quills ; upper tail-coverts dusky 

 brown, with white shafts and rufous margins ; tail-feathers dusky 

 brown, with dusky cross bars under certain lights, edged with rusty 

 brown, the outer feathers tipped with pale rusty, the outermost ex- 

 ternally edged with reddish : fore part of crown rather darker than 

 the head : lores bright ferruginous, streaked with white ; ear-coverts 

 black, with broad white mesial streaks ; cheeks black, foi-ming a 

 broad stripe ; throat whitish ; fore neck and breast white, shading 

 off into yellowish buff on the latter, all the feathers mesiall)' streaked 

 with dusky ; centre of body sandy buff, becoming whiter on the 

 lower al)domen ; flanks reddish brown ; thighs chestnut, narrowly 

 lined with white ; under tail-coverts sandy bufl', dusky towards the 

 ends, with yellowish-white shaft-lines ; under wing-coverts chestnut ; 

 quills dusky brown below, reddish along the inner web ; " bill dark 

 horn-colour; feet brownish lead-colour ; inshazel" (Gould). Total 

 length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-45, tail 3'4, tarsus I'Oo. 



Mab. Victoria and South Australia. 



a, b. Ad. sk. South Australia F. D. Godman and O. 



{Cockerdl Coll.). Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



3. Amytis macrura. 



Amytis macrourus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 2 ; id. B. Austr. fol. iii. 



pi. .30 (1848) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 166 (1848) ; Bp. Conq}. i. p. 219 



(1850) ; GouM, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 338 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 205, no. 2895 (1869) ; Ramsay, Prvc. Linn. Soc. iV. <S'. W. 



ii. p. 184 (1878). 

 Amytis textihs (nee Q. ^- G.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 205, no. 2893 



(1869). 



Adidt. General colour above light brown, streaked with dusky 

 and white, the feathers having a mesial white streak bordered with 

 dusky brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts rather more reddish 

 brown, with fulvous or white shaft-streaks ; wing-coverts like the 

 back and streaked in the same manner; quills brown, with reddish 

 shafts, the feathers margined with fulvous-brown ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, edged with paler brown, the centre ones minutely barred with 

 dusky under certain lights ; lores ashy whitish ; an obscure streak 

 of bi'ick-red at the base of the forehead above the lores ; ear-coverts 

 and cheeks dark brown, broadly streaked with white ; under surface 

 of body isabelline, richer in tint on the throat, chest, and flanks, 

 the two former with obscure whitish central streaks, the sides more 



