128 TIMKLITP.T'. 



the centres of the feathers ; lower back and rump uniform fulvous- 

 brown ; the upper tail-coverts slightly washed with asliy, and 

 having dark brown or blackish mesial streaks ; up]>er wing-coverts 

 like the back, with scarcely any indications of dark central streaks, 

 these, however, being very broadly indicated on the greater series; 

 baatard-wing feathers, primarj'-covcrts, and quills dusky brown, 

 externally more rufous, the innermost secondaries broadly mar- 

 gined on both webs with fulvous-brown : tail-feathers light fulvous- 

 brown, barred with dusky under certain lights and edged with 

 fulvous-brown ; head and nape uniform rufous, except for a few 

 black streaks in the middle of the crown ; lores dull whitish ; eye- 

 brow butfy whitish, shading into light ashy brown on the hinder 

 part like the sides of the neck ; eyelid butfy white ; ear-coverts 

 brown, tinged with rufous on the upper margin, and narrowly 

 streaked with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and under surface of 

 body dull white, yellowish buff on the chest and sides of body, 

 deepening on the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries 

 fulvous ; iinder wing-coverts creamy buff, the lower series rather 

 more ashy ; quills brown below, pale ashy rufous along the edge of 

 the inner web; "upper mandible olive-brown, the cutting-edges 

 yellowish white ; lower mandible bluish white ; tarsi and feet 

 reddish tlesh-colonr ; iris light brown" (Go?/ W). Total length G-5 

 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-6, tail y-35, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Victoria and New South Wales, extending along the entire 

 east coast of Australia to Cape York, and along the north coast to 

 Port Essington. 



a. Ad. sk. Norman Eiver. Gould Collection. 



b. Ad. sk. Eiclnnond Eiver. A. P. Goodwin [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Somerset, Cape York F. D. Godman and 0. 



iCockerell ^- Thorpe). Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



d. e. Ad. ; /. Juv. Cape York {Cockerell). F. D. Godman and O. 

 sk. Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



g. Ad. St. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



'h. Ad. St. Austraha. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



7. Megalurus timoriensis. 



Megalurus timoriensis, Wallace, P. Z. 8. 180.3, p. 489 ; Finsch, Nm- 

 Chiinea, p. 166 (1865) ; Gray, Haml-l. B. i. p. 206, no. 2907 

 (1869). 

 Adult male (type of species). General colour above dull fulvous- 

 brown, more or less shaded with rufous, the feathers broadly 

 centred with blackish brown : lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts bright ferruginous ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the 

 back, the greater series dark brown, externally light rufous-brown ; 

 quills blackish, externally rufous, the inner secondaries broadly 

 margined with light fulvous on both wcl)s ; tail-feathers light brown 

 M-ith black shafts, and washed with rufous on the edges : crown of 

 head ferruginous, narrowing on the nape and quite uniform ; lores 

 dull whitish ; from the base of the bill an eyebrow of yellowish buff. 



