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quills ashy browu below, edged with paler ashy along the edge of 

 the inner web ; " bill, inside and out, and base of the tongue black ; 

 feet reddish browu; iris brownish red" (Gould). Total length 

 10-75 inches, culnien 1, wing -4, tail o'To, tarsus 1-35. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having a much shorter crest, 

 which is also browner, in having the whole throat white, mottled 

 with a few black bases to the feathers : the under surface of the 

 body earthy brown, rather more reddish on the flanks, the centre 

 of the body white. 



Hah. Victoria and Xew South Wales, extending along the east 

 coast as high as Rockingham Bay. 



a. Ad. sk. Somerset, Cape York F. D. Godman and 0. 



{Cockerell ^- Thorpe). Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



b. Ad. ; c. Juv, sk. Queensland. Purchased. 

 d. Ad. tk. Queensland. Purchased. 



e,f,g. Ad. ; h. Juv. Cape York {Cockerell F. D. Godman and O. 



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



2. Psophodes nigrogularis. 



Psophodes nigrogularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1844, p. 5 ; Grai/, Gen. B. 

 i. p. 129 (lf<46) ; Gould, B. Aust. fol. iii. pi. 1(3 (1848) ; ^Bp. Cunsp. 

 i. p. 216 (18.50) : Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 85 (1850) ; Reichenh. 

 Vog. Neuholl. p. 67 (1850) ; Gotdd, Handb. B. Ausfr. i. p. 314 

 (1866) ; Grni/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 284, no. 4205 (1869) ; Biggies, Orii. 

 Austr. text to pi. 43 (c. 1870) ; Ramsay, Proe. Linn. Sac. N. S. TV. 

 ii. p. 184 (1878). 



Adult. Plumage of the upper surface olive ; under surface ashy, 

 passing into brown on the flanks and white on the centre of the 

 abdomen; primaries brown ; tail light olive-brown, the four lateral 

 feathers crossed near the extremity with a baud of black and tipped 

 with white ; thr-oat deep black, with a stripe of white from the angle 

 of the lower mandible, just within the black ; bill and feet dark 

 horn-colour ; iris dark brown. Total length 6| inches, bill |, wing 

 3g, tail 4|, tarsus Ig {Gould). 



Bab. West Australia. 



9. HYPERGERUS. 



Type. 

 Hypergerus, Reichenb. Syst. Av. Sat. pi. liv. fig. 9 (1850) H. atriceps. 

 Hypochloreus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 85, note (1850) . . H. atriceps. 



Head of Hypergerus atriceps. 

 Range. West Africa 



