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on its upper margin by a narrow border of black ; lores, feathers 

 round the eye, and ear-coverts dark brown, blackish in front of 

 the eye; cheeks, throat, and breast white, more or less washed 

 with brown on the latter ; sides of body ashy brown, more or 

 less tinged with fawn-colour, the lower flanks, under tail- coverts, 

 and vent darker brown ; under wing-coverts ashy brown, the 

 greater series slightly washed with rufous ; quills dark brown 

 below, ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner web ; " bill blackish 

 brown, the lower part of the under mandible greyish white ; feet 

 blackish brown; iris straw-yellow" (Gould). Total length 7'5 

 inches, culmen 1, wing 3-05, tail 3, tarsus 1. 



The sexes, as well as the young, so closelj' resemble each other 

 that they can only be distinguished by the aid of dissection. In the 

 young the iris is brown (Gould). 



Hah. Southern Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales, ex- 

 tending into the interior. It ranges iip the east coast as far as 

 Rockingham Bay, though it has not yet been recorded from the 

 Richmond and Clarence-river district, nor from the Cape-York 

 peninsula. It appears again in the Gulf of Carpentaria and reaches 

 as far as Port Darwin and Port Essington ; and it is found also in 

 Western Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. " South coast of New HoUand," Liuneau Society [P.]. 



1802. (Type of species.) 



h. S ad. sk. Murray river, South Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. 



e. Juv. sk. New South Wales. Gould Collection. 

 /. Ad. sk. AustraUa. Gould Collection. 



g. Ad. St. South Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



h,i,k. Ad. sk. South Australia. F. D. Godmau and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



10. Pomatorhinus ruiiceps. 



Pomatorhiuus ruficeps, Hartl. J. f. O. 1853, p. 31 ; Gould, B. Austr., 

 Suppl. pi. 08; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 278, no. 4101 (1869). 



Pomatostomus ruficeps, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 484 (1865) ; 

 Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. iV". S. W. ii. p. 188 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above ashy grey, slightly mottled in 

 appearance, the feathers being brown with ashy-grey margins ; 

 upper tail-coverts brown, narrowly edged with grey ; wing-coverts 

 like the back and margined with grey in the same manner ; the 

 median and greater sei'ies with white margins, forming two narrow 

 bars across the wing ; quills brown ; tail-feathers blackish, tipped 

 with white, more broadly towards the outer ones, the centre feathers 

 browner and not tijjped with white ; head chestnut, bordered with 

 a narrow line of black along the side of the crown, this being 

 separated from the ear-coverts by a broad white eyebrow extending 

 from the base of the biU to the sides of the hind neck ; eyelid white 

 above, blackish brown on the remainder of the circlet where it 

 adjoins the lores and ear-coverts, which are also blackish brown ; the 



