21, poMATOKHnnrs. 419 



part of their extent, dark brown at the ends ; tail blackish brown, 

 tipped with white, increasing in extent towards the outer feathers, 

 which haye very broad ends ; lores, eyelid, and ear-coverts dull 

 ashy brown, greyer on the latter ; cheeks, throat, and breast dull 

 white, the sides of the breast dull rufous, deepening into brown on 

 the flanks and thighs, and becoming blackish on the under tail- 

 coverts, which have white ends ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 rufous-brown slightly washed with grey : wing-lining rufous ; 

 " biU blackish olive-brown, except the basal portion of the lower 

 mandible, which is greyish white ; feet blackish brown ; iris straw- 

 yellow " {Gould). Total length 10 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 4-65, 

 tail 4-9, tarsus 1*4. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in coloration, but smaller in 

 the bill and tarsus. Total length 10 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 4-65, 

 tail 4-7, tarsus 1-25. 



Youwf birds have the iris brown (Gould). 



Hah. The whole of Western Australia, from Hockingham Bay 

 down to Kew South Wales, and is found also in South Australia and 

 Victoria. Though not yet recorded from Cape York, it occurs in the 

 Gulf of Carpentaria. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Linnean Society [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. S ad. sk. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir D. Cooper [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir T. ISIitcheU [P.]. 



e. § ad, sk. Dobbo, New South Wales, Australian Musemn [P.]. 



July 1876 (Hearn). 



f. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Gould Collection. 



g. Ad. sk. Moretou Bay {F. Strange). Gould Collection. 



h,i. Ad.sk. Queensland (</. T. Cockerell). F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.], 



9, Poinatorhinxis superciliosus. 



Pomatorhinus superciliosus, Vig. <§• Sorsf. Trans. Linn. Sac. xv. 



p. 330 (1825) ; Grag, Gen. B. i. p. 229 "(1840) ; Gould, B. Austr. 



fol. iv. pi. 22 (1848) ; Sturt, Exp. Centr. Austr. ii., App. p. 32 



(1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 220 (ISoO) ; Reichenb. Voe/. Neuholl. 



p. 120 (1850) ; Tlorsf. l^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mm. i. p. 236 



(1854) ; Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 278, no. 4099 (1869). 

 Pomatostoraus superciliosus, Cab. Mug. Hem. Th. i. p. 84 (1850) ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 482 (1865) ; Bamsag, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 188 (1878). 



Adult male. General colour above duU ashy brown, the feathers 

 being brown with ashy margins ; tail-feathers brown, the middle 

 ones narrowly tipped with white, gradually increasing in extent 

 towards the outermost, which have broad white endings ; wings 

 brown, the coverts and quills edged with ashy brown, a little more 

 rufescent on the quills ; head like the back, the forehead slightly 

 mottled -with paler tips of fulvous-brown ; from the baso of the 

 nostrils to the sides of the nape a broad white eye-streak, fringed 



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