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TIMELIID^. 



c. Ad. ; d. Juv. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 



f,g, h. Ad.; i. Juv. 



sk. 

 k. Imm. sk. 

 /. Ad. St. 



New South Wales. 

 S. Australia. 

 Mount Gambier, S. 



Australia. 

 Australia {Gould). 

 S. Australia. 



Gould Collection, 

 Gould Collection. 

 Gould Collection. 



Eyton Collection. 

 Sir G. Grey [P.], 



11. Sericornis liumilis. 



Sericoruis liumilis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 133 ; id. Syn. B. Austr. 

 iv. pi. iii. fig. 3 (1838) ; id. B. Austr. folio, iii. pi. 47 (1848); Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 188 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 306 (1850) ; Reichenb. 

 Vof/. Nmholl. p. 67 (1850) ; Gotdd, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 356 

 (1865) ; Grmj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 218, no. 3112 (1869) ; Ramsay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 185 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above dark chocolate-brown, rather more 

 rufous on the lower back and rump, the latter with concealed sub- 

 terminal marks of ashy whitish on the feathers ; wing-coverts like 

 the back : the outer greater coverts and bastard wing black, with a 

 small white tip ; primary-coverts black ; quills sepia-brown, exter- 

 nally chocolate-brown like the back ; upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers reddish brown ; crown of the head a littte more dusky 

 brown than the back, and with obscure dark margins to the frontal 

 feathers, giving a slightly scaled appearance ; aloral streak of white, 

 the feathers margined with black, producing a scaled appearance 

 an eyebrow of dull slaty grey ; feathers in front of the eye and 

 eyelid blackish ; ear-coverts dark ashy, slightly mottled with dusky 

 cheeks and throat white, the latter with blackish centres, produ- 

 cing a spotted appearance, the cheek-feathers tipped with dusky 

 the hinder cheeks ashy ; sides of the neck like the back ; lower 

 throat, fore neck, breast, and abdomen pale yellow, with ashy 

 centres to the feathers, making these parts look slightly mottled ; 

 sides of the body, Hanks, and under tail-coverts light reddish brown ; 

 thighs ashy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries olive-brown, dusky 

 near the margin of the wing ; qnills below ashy brown ; inner edge 

 of quills ashy. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-45, 

 tail 2, tarsus 1-05. 



Hah. Tasmania, and some of the islands in Bass's Straits. 



a. Ad. sk. 



Tasmania. 



John Gould, Esq. 



