13. ACANinizA. 297 



All the upper surface and wings olive-brown, the feathers of the 

 forehead margined with bulf ; wings brown with pale edges ; throat 

 white, each feather margined with black ; abdomen whitish ; flanks 

 pale buff ; upper tail-coverts rufous ; tail olive, crossed by a broad 

 band of black, and tipped on the outer webs with pale olive, on the 

 inner webs with white ; bill blackish brown, under mandible some- 

 what lighter ; feet brown ; iris reddish brown. Total length 4 inches, 

 bill |, wing 2, tail 1|, tarsus |. (Gould.) 



Mab. West Australia. 



This species seems to me to be very doubtfully distinct from 

 A. aj^)icalis. 



7. Acauthiza lineata. 



Acanthiza lineata, Gould, P. Z. S. 18.37, p. 146 ; id. Sijn. B. Austr. 

 part iv. pi. 4. fig. 4 (1838) ; id. B. Austr. fol. iii.pl. 01 {1848J ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 189 (1848) ; Bj}. Consp. i. p. 292 (1850) ; Beichenb. 

 Vog. Keuholl. p. 74 (1850) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 372 

 (18(J5) ; Von Midler, P. Z. 8. 1869, p. 279 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 219, no. 3114 (1869) ; Biggies, Orn. Au^tr. pi. 45. fig. 2 (1870); 

 Mamsay, Proc. Linn. 8oc. N. S. W. ii. p. 185 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above duU ohve-green, with concealed 

 whitish shafts to the mantle-feathers ; wing-coverts light brown, 

 narrowly edged with olive-green ; bastard-wing feathers uniform 

 light brown ; primar^'-coverts hght brown, with narrow olive-green 

 margins ; quills light brown, narrowly edged with olive-green, 

 yellowish on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts dull reddish brown ; 

 tail-feathers ashy with olive-green margins, a tolerably broad subter- 

 minal bar of black before the tip, which is ashy, and inclines to ashy 

 whitish at the tip of the inner web on all the outer feathers ; crown 

 of the head and nape duU rufous-bro-\vn, contrasting with the back, 

 and with distinct shaft-lines of white : lores dull whitish, with dusky 

 margins to the feathers ; eyelid dull rufous minutely spotted with 

 white; ear-coverts dusky thickly streaked with dull white centres 

 to the feathers ; sides of the neck olive like the back ; cheeks, throat, 

 fore neck, and breast duU whitish with a slight tinge of yellow, and 

 slightly streaked with dusky blackish, with which the feathers are 

 edged ; abdumcu yellowish white ; sides of the body and flanks a 

 little more olive ; thighs ashy brown ; under tail-coverts a little 

 more fulvescent ; under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish slightly 

 washed with yellowish buft': quills below ashy brown; inner edge 

 of quills whitish; " biU and feet black; iris brown" (Gould). 

 Total length 3-9 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-1, tail 1*65, tai-sus 0-7. 



iSexes alike (Gould). 



Hah. South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales, extending 

 along the east coast as far as Queensland. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Collection. 



b. Ad. sk. liiver Hunter (Gould), Eyton Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. Kichmond river. Mr. A. P. Goodwin [C.l 



d. Ad. sk. Queensland. Herbert Flower, Esq. [C.]. 



