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nifous on the fore neck ; sides of the body and flanks olive-greenish ; 

 thighs dusk}' extern.ill}', yellow on the inner aspect ; under tail- 

 coverts yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellow, with 

 white bases to the feathers ; quills below dusky ; inner edge of 

 quills whitish ; " bUl and feet blackish brown ; iris brown, with a 

 ver}- narrow rim of yellowish white" (Gotdd). Total length 

 3-8 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-15, tail 1-5, tarsus 0"7. 



Sexes alike in colour (Gould). 



Hah. Victoria and South Australia. New South Wales, extend- 

 ing along the east coast as high as the Wide-Bay district. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Linnean Society [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. N. S. Wales. Gould Collection. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Queensland (Cockerel!). F. D. Godmaii and 0. S.il- 



viu, Esqrs. [P.j. 



2. Acanthiza inornata. 



Acanthiza inornata, Gould, P. Z. >S. 1840, p. 171 ; id. B. Austr. 

 fol. iii. pi. 59 (1848); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 189 (1848); Bp. Consp. 

 i. n. 292 (1850); Eeichenh. Vin/. Ncuholl. p. 73 (1850); Gould, 

 Handh. B. Austr. i. p. .370 (1865); Graij, Iland-l. B. i. p. 219, 

 ■an. .S117 (1869); Di!!(jles, Orn. Austr. pi. 45. fig. 1 (1870); 

 Banisay, Proc. Linn. Sue. N. S. W. ii. p. 185 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above ashy olive-brown, with concealed 

 pale shafts to the mantle-feathers ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater coverts, bastard-wing feathers, and pri- 

 mary-coverts dusky brown, edged with the same colour as the back ; 

 (juills dull brown, edged with olive, paler on the margin of the pri- 

 maries ; rump lighter olive than the back, with concealed whitish 

 subterminal spots ; upper tail-coverts pale olive-brown ; tail-feathers 

 light brown, edged with olive, and having a distinct subterminal 

 band of blackish before the pale brown tip ; crown of the head like 

 the Itack ; forehead mottled with whity brown, the feathers edged 

 with dark brown, producing a scaly appearance ; feathers round the 

 eye buffy whitish, mottled with brown ; ear-coverts light earthy 

 brown, with indistinct paler shaft-lines; checks, throat, fore neck, 

 and chest ashy whitish, quite uniform ; breast, abdomen, sides of 

 the body and flaniis a little yellower, inclining to olive on the sides 

 of the body ; thighs light brown ; under tail-coverts like the flanks ; 

 under wing-coverts light fulvous : axillaries pale ashy ; quills below 

 dusky ; inner edge of the quills ashy fulvous ; " bill aud feet black ; 

 iris greenish white " (Gould). Total length 3"6 inches, culmen 0-45, 

 wing 2-75, tail 1-4, tarsus 07. 



Sexes alike (Gould). 



The specimen from King George's Sound is altogether darker than 

 the one described, being dark brown above and below fulvescent, 

 much deeper than the Swan-river bird. 



Iltd). Southern and Western .Australia. 



