346 TllIELHU.E. 



their bases ; clieeks and throat white ; remainder of nnder surface 

 whity brown or whitish washed with brown, the sides of the breast 

 ashy brown, more rufesccnt on the flanks ; under tail-coverts chest- 

 nut-brown ; axillaries ashy, tipped with white ; under wing-coverts 

 blackish, tipped with white, forming broad bars; quills blackish 

 below, with a patch of white near the base of the primaries and 

 outer secondaries ; feet pale in skin ; bill black. Total length 7 

 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-2, tail 3-5, tarsus 1-7. 



Hah. South-eastern New Guinea, extending into the Aru Islands. 



a. S ad. sk. Wanumbai, Aru Islands Voy. of H.M.S. ' Chal- 



(/. Mun-ay). lenger.' 



b, c. Ad. sk. Port Moresby! Mr. A. Goldie [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. Mr. K. Broadbeut [C.]. 



6. HYLACOLA. ^^.^^ 



Hylacola, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 1^5 H. pyrrhopygia. 



Range. Australia. 



1. Hylacola pyrrhopygia. 



Acanthiza pyrrhopygia, Viy. Sf Horsf. Trans. Zool. Soc. xv. p. 227 



(1826). 

 Hylacola pyrrhopygia, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 13o ; id. B. Austr. 



fol iii pi. 39 (1848); Bp. Comp.i. p. 280 (1850); JReiche^ib. Vog. 



Neuholl p 82 (1850) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 346 (1865) ; 



Ramsay, P roc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 185 (1878). 

 Calamauthus pyrrliopygius, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 164 (1848); id. 



Hand-!. B. i.'p. 204, no. 2873 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above russet-brown, shaded with umber 

 or ashy brown ; the head and hind neck more decidedly ashy brown ; 

 upper tail-coverts light chestnut ; wing-coverts like the back, the 

 median and greater series faintly tipped with whitish ; quills brown, 

 externally edged with russet-brown, the primaries with ashy brown ; 

 tail-feathers light reddish brown, washed with lighter brown on the 

 e'do-es, all but the two centre feathers with a distinct subterminal 

 bar of black, the ends of the feathers being ashy brown ; lores, 

 eyelid, and a narrow eyebrow whitish; earcoverts ashy brown, 

 like the head, with narrow whitish shaft-lines, more distinct below 

 the eye ; cheeks dull whitish, mottled with dusky tips to the feathers ; 

 under surface of body dull white, thickly spotted with dusky brown 

 on the throat, breast, and sides of body, the abdomen being uniform 

 white ; under tail-coverts bright chestnut, the feathers tipped with 

 white • under wing-coverts and axillaries whity brown, the lower 

 series a little tinged with reddish ; quills brown below, ashy fulvous 

 along the edge of the inner web ; " bill dark brown ; legs flesh- 

 brown ;' iris buffy white" (Gould). Total length o-25 inches, cul- 

 men 0-55, wing 2-1.5, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-85. 



