5. DRYMA(EDUS. 343 



c. Ad. sk. Australia. Purchased. 

 d,e,f. Ad.sk. Australia (C'ocA-?;W/ F. I). Godman and 0. Sal- 

 Co//.), vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



5. DRYMACEDUS. 



Type. 



Drymodes, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 1/0 D. bruuneopygius. 



Drymos, Giebel, Thts. Orn. ii. p. 60 (Japsii). 

 Drymacedus, Salvad. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 97 (nom. emend.). 



Range. Australia, extending into Ne\v Guinea and the Am 

 Islands. 



Keif to the Species. 



a. Upper wing-coverts brown, tipped with ashy 



whitish ; a small black spot above and below 

 the eye. 

 a' . Underneath ashy brown, a little paler on the 



throat brunneopt/gius, p. 343. 



b'. Underneath bufly white, a little browner on 



the sides of the breast and flanks pallidus, p. 344. 



b. Upper wing-coverts black, broadly tipped yitli 



white ; a distinct black spot above the eye, as 

 well as a black streak crossing the fore part 

 of the ear-coverts nearly vertically. 

 c'. A broad line of white above the ear-coverts ; 



under tail-coverts fulvous superciliaris, p. 344. 



d' . No white eyebrow, but a slight shade of 

 ashy grey ; under tail-coverts chestnut- 

 brown becrarii, p. 345. 



1. Drymacedus brunneopygius. 



Drjinoedus brunneopvEria, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 170; id. B. Austr. 

 fol. iii. pi. 10 (1848)'; Grin/, Gen. B. i. p. 183 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. 

 i. p. 328(1850); Reichmb. Viig. Xeuholl. p. 109 (1850); Gould, 

 Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 290 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 229, 

 no. 3310 (1869) ; Eamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. W. ii. p. 183 

 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above dark earthy brown, somewhat 

 washed with ashy brown on the back : least wing-coverts like the 

 back, the median and greater series dai'k brown, tipped with light 

 ashy ; primary- coverts dark brown ; quills dark brown, the primaries 

 ashy at the base of the outer web, and having also a bar of whitish 

 across their middle, the secondaries tipped with ashy and edged 

 externally with fulvous-brown, like some of the innermost greater 

 coverts ; upper tail-covert s rufous-brown ; tail-feathers brown, 

 slightly washed with rufous-brown external!}', the outer feathers 

 darker brown, tipped with white ; lores and feathers in front of the 

 eyo dull white ; eyelid white, excei)tiug where it adjoins^a black 

 spot above and below the eye, where it is also black ; sides of hinder 



