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crown asliy ; ear-coverts brown, with a few white shaft-lines near 

 the base, which is also black and forms part of the subociilar black 

 spot ; cheeks and nnder surface of body ashy brown, the throat 

 paler, the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts browner ; lower 

 abdomen whitish ; axillaries light ashy ; under wing-coverts dusky 

 brown, broadly tipped with white ; quills dull brown below, with a 

 white bar near the base, formed of white spots on the inner webs 

 of the quills ; " irides, bill, and feet blackish brown " {Gould). 

 Total length 8 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-85, tail 4-2, tarsus 1-55. 

 Hah. Victoria and South Australia. 



a, b. Ad. St. S. Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Murray river {J. Eytou Collection. 



Gould). 



d. Ad.; e. Juv. sk. S. Australia {Cockerell F. D. Godman and O. 



Coll.). Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



2. Drymacedus pallidus. 



Adult. Similar to D. hrimneopugius, but lighter brown above and 

 having a much larger extent of white border to the primaries ; 

 underneath the general colour is creamy white, including the under 

 tail-coverts and axillaries ; sides of the fore neck brown ; flanks 

 also pale brown. Total length 8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-7, tail 

 3-!J, tarsus 1-55. 



Youmj. Ditfers from the adult in being mottled all over, the 

 upper surface being streaked with whitish centres to the feathers, 

 Avhile underneath the feathers are dull white with dusky margins ; 

 under tail-coverts uniform pale tawny. 



Hah. Apparently represents the common species in Western 

 Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. Peron's Peninsula, Shark Bav, Vov. of H.M.S. 



May 1858 {Dr. F. M. liai/'ner). ' Herald.' 



h. Juv. sk. Botherliug, interior of Western Eyton Collectiou. 



Australia, Oct. 29, 1823 {J. 



Gould). 



3. Drjnnaoedus superciliaris. 



Drymodes siiperciliaris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 200; id. B. Austr,, 

 Stippl. pi. 16 ; id. Handh. B. Austr. i. p. 291 ( 1805) ; Grmj, Hand-l. 

 B. i. p. 229, no. 3^11 (1869) ; Ramsm/, Froc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 ii. p. 183 (1878). 



Adtdt. General colour above rufous-brown, a little more dingy 

 on the head ; the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brighter 

 rufous ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 series black, with a broad bar of white at the tip ; primary-coverts 

 black; quills black, margined with white, which narrows in the 

 centre of the outer web ; secondaries externally edged with bufly 

 white and tipped with ashy white, the innermost secondaries exter- 



