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TIMELIID^. 



p. 189 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 292 (1850) ; Bekhenh. Viig. Neu- 

 hoU. p. 75 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 219, no. 3126 (1869) ; 

 Dif/c/les, Oni. Austr. pi. 45. fig. 5 (1870). 

 Geobasileus reg'iiloides, Cah. Mus. Hein, Th. i. p. 32, note (1850) ; 

 Gould, Haiidb. B. Austr. i. p. 377 (1865) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. TV. ii. p. 185 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above duU olive-brown, with half-concealed 

 ashy shaft-lines to the mantle-feathers ; wing-coverts browner than 

 the hack, slightly edged with olive ; bastard wing and primary- 

 coverts dusky brown, with scarcely any indications of olive mar- 

 gins ; quills dusky brown, edged with olive, lighter on the primaries ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts pale ochraceous yellow ; tail-feathers 

 rufescent ochre at base, blackish brown for the terminal half, and 

 tipped with pale ochraceous brown, lighter on the outer feathers ; 

 crown of the head the same as the back, feathers of the forehead 

 pale rufescent brown with blackish margins, producing a slightly 

 scaled appearance ; lores like the forehead, but a little more dusky ; 

 eyelids and ear-coverts dusky brown, with small buffy whitish 

 streaks ; cheeks, throat, and breast ash)' yellowish, slightly mottled 

 with dusky margins to the feathers ; abdomen, sides of the body, and 

 flanks dull ochraceous buff; thighs olive-yellowish ; under tail- 

 coverts ochraceous yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillarics pale 

 yellowish buff; ([uills below ashy brown ; inner edge of quills 

 fulvesceut ; " bill brown, the under mandible paler than the upper; 

 feet olive-brown ; iris beautiful straw-colour" {Gould). Total length 

 3'9 inches, culmeu 0*4, wing 1-95, tail 1-45, tar.sus 0'65. 



Hab. From South Australia to New South Wales, including the 

 interior province, and ranging along the east coast as high as the 

 Wide-Bay district. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Linnean Society. (Type 



of species.) 



b. 2 ad. sk. S. Australia. Gould CoUectiou. 



c. Ad. st. S. Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Dobroyde, near Sydney Gould Collection. 



{Ramsay). 



e. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Gould Collection. 



f. Ad. sk. Upper Hunter {Gould). Eyton Collection. 



g. Ad. sk. Queensland. Jlerbert Flower, Esq. [C.]. 

 h, i. Ad. sk. Brisbane, Queensland F. P. Gddmau and O. Sal- 



{J. T. Cockerell). vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Australia. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



14. SERICORNIS. 



Type. 



Sericornis, Goidd, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 133 S. frontalis. 



■Pyrrholfemus, Gould, P. Z. 6'. 1840, p. 173 S. brunnea. 



Range. Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and the Aru Islands. 



