292 TIMELIIDJ5. 



a'. No white ti|,s to tail-feathers; forehead 

 pale rufous, with dusky-brown tips to 

 the feathers. 

 a\ Smaller: bill 0'45 inch ; colour above 

 light olive-greenish ; abdomen pale 

 yellow; ilanka light fulvous- brown, pusilla, p. 294. 

 b'. Larger : bill Oo inch ; colour above 

 dull olive-brown; abdomen yellow- 

 ish white ; flanks olive-brown .... diemetiensis, p. 295. 

 6*. Tail-feathers with distinct white tips 

 to the inner webs. 

 c'. Upper tail-coverts rufous-brown; 

 frontal feathers black, with whitish 



or fulvous margins cqncalis, p. 296, 



<?'. Upper tail-coverts bright rufous ; 

 /■ forehead pale rufuus, with dusky 



; . . margins to the feathers pyrrhopygia, p. 296. 



h" . Head a little more rufescent brown than 

 ■ the back, and streidied conspicuously with 



whitish shaft-lines ; back olive-greenish . . Uneata, p. 297. 

 h. Dark band on tail occupying ne^irly the terminal 

 half of the feather ; base of tail brightly coloured 

 like the rump and upper tail-coverts. 

 e'. Base of tail rufou>, like upper tail-coverts .... uropygialis, p. 298. 

 d'. Base of tail bright yellow like upper tail- 

 coverts c/irysorrJioa, p. 298. 



e'. Base of tail pale fulvous-brown; upper tail- 

 coverts dull yellow reyidoides, p. 299. 



1. Acanthiza nana. 



Acanthiza nana, Viy. 4" Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 226 (1826) ; 



■ Goidd, B. Amtr. fol. iii. pi. 60 (1848) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 189 

 (1848) ; Eeichenb. Voy. Neitholl. p. 76 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 292 

 (1850) ; Guuld, Ilandb. B. Austr. i. p. 371 (186.5) ; Von Miiller, 

 1>. Z. S. 1869, p. 279 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 219, no. 3113 (1869) ; 

 Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. M. S. W. ii. p. 185 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above dull olive-green ; wing-coverts like 

 the back but more ashy, washed externally with olive-greeu ; the 

 outer median and greater coverts ashy along the outer webs; bastard- 

 wing feathers dusky brown, narrowly edged with ashy ; primary- 

 coverts dusky brown, with a very narrow margin of olive-green; 

 quills dusky brown, edged with olive-green, more yellow on the 

 primaries ; inner secondaries ashy ; upper tail-coverts olive-brown, 

 strongly washed with yellowish green ; tail-feathers ashy, narrowly 

 margined with olive-yellowish, with a broad subterminal band across 

 the tail, succeeded by an ashy tip ; crown of the head like the back ; 

 base of the forehead yellowish white, with olive-green tips to the 

 feathers, producing a slightly .scaled appearance ; lores and feathers 

 round the eye dusky, the featliers minutely tipped with dull whitish ; 

 ear-coverts dusky, plainly streaked with white ; cheeks and throat 

 light rufous, narrowly slreakcd with white ; sides of the neek olive 

 like the back; foie neck, breast, and abdomen yellow, tinged with 



