7. CH^Tops. 347 



Hah. Victoria aud South Australia, extending as far as the Wide- 

 Bay district. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Linueau Society. (Type 



, , of species.) ' 



tj. Ad. St. Australia. Edward Wilson, Esq. rP.l 



c. Ad. St. Liverpool Plains. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



2. Hylacola cauta. 



Hylacola cauta, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 1.35; id. B. Austr. fol.iii. 

 pi. 40 (1848) ;^/.. Consp. i. p. 280 (1850); Reichenb. Vog. Neu- 

 holl. p. 182 (185ft); Gould, Kandb. B. Ausfr. i. p. 347 (1865) • 

 Mamsay, Fr. Linn. Soc. N. -S'. IT", ii. p. 185 (1878). ^ ^ ' 



Calamanthus cautus, Grai/, Gen. B. i, p. 104 (1848) ; id. Hand-l B 

 1. p. 204, no. 2874 (1809). 



Line from the base of the upper mandible along the side of the 

 lace and over the eye white; above this a narrow line of black- 

 crown of the head and all the upper surface brown ; upper and 

 under tail-coverts bright chestnut ; wing-coverts brown, edged with 

 brownish white ; primaries with the outer web white at the base 

 tormmg a conspicuous spot in the centre of the wing ; tail blackish 

 brown, tipped with white ; throat striated wath black and white 

 produced by each feather being black down the centre and fringed 

 with white ; Hanks mottled with brown and white ; abdomen white ; 

 bill dark brown ; feet tlesh-brown ; iris buffy white. Total leno-th 

 o| inches, bill ^«^, wing 2^, tail 2^, tarsus 1. {Gould.) 



In size H. cauta is rather less than H. injrrUpyijm, has the 

 markings of the under surface much bol.der, and the chestnut-coloui.d 

 mark on the rump of a much deeper tint. (Gould.) 



Hah. South Australia. 



7. CH-ffiTOPS. 



Chfetops, Swains, in Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birdg, p 480 ^^^' 



(18^1) ^' n e . 



^ ' L. irenatus. 



Rancje. Confined to South Africa. 



Key to the Spene-f. 



a. Larger ; throat black, with white cheeks. 



«;. Under surface deep chestnut frenafus J , p. 348 



b Lnder surface orange \iurantius cT, p. 348 



u. Larger; throat ashy, washed witli rufous ur 'f • 



orange on the lower part. 



C Under surt]ice chestnut frenatus 9 , p. 348 



d Under surface orange 'aurantius 9 , p. 349 



c. bmaller ; throat and chest white pijcnop>,<jius, p. 349* 



