13. ACAK'jnizA. 299 



Geobasileus chr}'Sorrbous, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 32 (18G0) ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Audi: i. p. 374 (1805). 

 Geobasileus chrysorrhoea, Bamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. 



p. 180 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above olive-yello-wish, with a tiift of silky 

 -svbitish feathers on each side of the lower back ; lesser wing-coverts, 

 median, and greater coverts ashy brown, with paler edges slightly 

 tinged with olive ; bastard wing and primary-coverts dark brown, 

 margined with whitish ; quills dark brown, externally washed with 

 olive-brown, ashy whitish on the edge of the primaries ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts bright yellow ; tail-feathers yellow at base, ashy 

 on the inner webs, the terminal half dark brown, with a pale ashy- 

 brown tip, whitish at the ends of the inner webs ; crown of the 

 head and nape more ashy than the back ; the forehead scaly, the 

 feathers blackish, tipped with spots of dull whitish; lores, a narrow 

 eyebrow, and the eyelid duU whitish ; ear-coverts dull whitish, 

 slightly mottled with dusky-brown edges to the feathers ; in front of 

 the eye a dusky spot : cheeks and throat white ; lower throat and 

 the rest of the under surface of the body yellowish buff ; abdomen 

 whitish ; sides of the body and flanks ochraceous buff, a little more 

 ashy on the side of the breast ; thighs dusky brown ; under tail- 

 coverts white with a tinge of yellow : under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white slightly washed with yellow ; quills below ashy brown ; 

 inner edge of quills whitish ; " bill and feet blackish brown ; iris 

 very light grey" (Gould). Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0'45, 

 wing '2-25, tail 1-5, tarsus 0*7. 



Sexes alike (Gould). 



The specimen from Swan river differs in having the hinder part 

 of the crown dark brown, and the whole upper surfjice darker than 

 the one described ; while the body is whitish underneath, with an 

 ashy shade on the fore neck and breast. It is probably a distinct 

 species. 



Hub. Western Australia and along the southern and eastern 

 provinces of the continent as high as Port Denison. Tasmania. 



a. Ad. sk. Tasmania. Antarctic Expedition. 



b. Ad. sk. Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P.^. 



c. Ad. St. Tasmania. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. ' 



d. c? ad. sk. South Australia (J. G.). Gould Collection. 



e. Ad. sk. Adelaide. Eytou Colleetiou. 

 /. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Colleetiou. 



ff,h. Ad.sk. Brisbane, Queensland (/. T. F. D. Godman and (J. Sal- 



Cockerell). vin, E.-qrs. [P.]. 



/. (S ad. sk. Mount Eliza, Swan river, Goidd Collection. 

 March 14, 1839 (J. <?.). 



k. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir D. Cooper [P.]. 



10. Acanthiza re^oides. 



Acanthiza rej^idoides, Viy. i)- Ilor^f. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. '22G 

 ("1827) ; Gould. B. Austr. fob iii. pi. 02 (1848) ; Gra;/, Gen. B. i. 



