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TI.MEI.IID.E. 



1. Sericomis brunnea. 



Pyrrholsemus brunneus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 173 ; id. B. Austr. 

 'iii. pi. 68 (1848) ; Sturt, Eiped. Centr. Austr. ii. Ai)p. p. 26 (1849) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 292 (1850) ; Eeichenh. Vog. NeiihoU. p. 86 (1850) ; 



Gould, Handh. B. Ausir. i. p. 384 (1865) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 168 (1878). 

 Acauthiza brunnea, Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 189 (1848) ; id. Iland-l. B. i. 



p. 220, no. 3150 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour above broTvu, darker and more earthy 

 brown on the lower back and rump, and with half-concealed silky 

 white or fulvous feathers on the sides of the latter ; lesser wing- 

 coverts ashy, median and greater coverts brown, externally mar- 

 gined with lighter brown, ashy at the ends of the median series and 

 ashy whitish at the tips of the outer greater coverts ; bastard-wing 

 feathers dusky brown, edged with ashy ; primary-coverts dusky 

 brown ; quills dusky brown, secondaries margined with lighter 

 brown, whity brown on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers dark brown, edged with lighter brown and tipped with 

 white ; crown of head like the back, slightly mottled with darker 

 centres to the feathers ; the forehead scaly in appeai-ance, the feathers 

 edged with ashy ; lores white, with a ruf ovis tinge at the base of the 

 nostrils ; eyelid white ; ear-coverts ashy grey ; cheeks and sides of 

 the neck clearer ashy grej', whitish on the fore part of the cheeks ; 

 throat bright rufous ; lower throat, fore neck, and chest ashy grey, 

 extending onto the sides of the breast ; centre of the latter and 

 abdomen white, purer on the latter, the breast washed with ashy ; 

 sides of the body ashy grey ; flanks light brown ; thighs dark 

 brown ; sides of the vent and under tail-coverts light tawny rufous, 

 the longer coverts whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 

 tawny fulvous ; edge of the wing ashy ; quills brown below, inner 

 edges ashy whitish ; " upper mandible reddish brown ; lower man- 

 dible greenish white ; legs and feet dark greenish grey ; iris reddish 

 brown, with an outer ring of yellowish white" (Gould). Total 

 length 4-6 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2*25, tail 2-1, tarsus 0"85. 



Nab. Victoria and South AustraUa, extending into West Aus- 

 tralia and the interior, and on the east coast as far as Rockingham 

 Bay. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Australia. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. York, West Australia, Aug. Eyton Collection. 



22, 1843 (Gutdd). 



d. Ad. St. Australia. Edward Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Sericornis citreogularis. 



? Muscicapa barbata, Lath. hid. Orn., Sirjipl. ii. p. 21 (1801). 

 Sericornis citreogularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 133 ; id. Syn. B. 

 Austr. pt. iv. pi. 3. fig. 4 (1838) ; id. B. Austr. fol. iii. pi. 46 



