21. POMATOKHrN'TTS. 421 



ear-coverts rather lighter brown, extending onto the sides of the 

 neck ; cheeks and under surface of body white, with a line of black 

 fringing the fore neck and chest, the sides of the breast washed with 

 rufous ; sides of body ashy brown, greyer on the flanks, which are 

 obscured with white tips to some of the feathers ; under tail-coverts 

 dull ashy, tipped with white ; azillaries and under wing- coverts 

 ashy, the lower scries tipi^ed with chestnut, those near the edge of 

 the wing ashy brown edged with white ; quills light brown below, 

 ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length 9-3 inches, 

 culinen 1-2, wing 3-5, tail 3-75, tarsus 1"15. 



Hah. Interior of South AustraUa, Victoria, and New South 

 Wales. 



a, 6. Ad. sk. Interior of Victoria (i^' Co//), Gould Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. Burke, river Darling {Dr. Gould CoUection. 



Pechen), 



d, e,f. Ad. sk, South Australia. F. D. Godman and 0. 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



11. PomatorMnus rubectilus. 



Pomatorhinus rubeculus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 144 ; Gray, Gen, 



B. i, p. 229 (1846) ; Gould, B. Austr. fol. iv. pi. 21 (1848) ; Eeichen. 



Voff. Neulwll. p. 121 (1850) ; Bj). Consp. i. p, 220 (1850) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 278, no. 4098 (1869), 

 Pomatostomus rubeculus, Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 83, note (1850) ; 



Gould, Handh. B. Austr. i, p. 481 (1865) ; Ramsay, Proc, Linn. 



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



Adult. Above dark chocolate-brown, gradually deepening into 

 blackish on the lower back and rump ; the upper tail-coverts and 

 tail black, the latter tipped with white, which increases in extent 

 towards the outermost feathers ; wings brown, with slight remains 

 of rufescent edges to the wing-coverts and near the tips of the outer 

 webs of the primaries ; all the qiiills fawn-coloured on the inner 

 webs, this colour more extended on the primaries, which are brown 

 only at the tips of the inner webs ; centre of the crown having a 

 narrow longitudinal band of chocolate-brown, bordered on each side 

 by a very broad band of creamy white ; lores, feathers round the 

 eye, and ear-coverts blackish brown, the latter somewhat washed 

 with ashy ; cheeks and upper throat white, the lower throat gra- 

 dually inclining to rusty rufous on the fore neck and chest, which 

 deepens into rufous-brown on the breast and into blackish on the 

 lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts, the latter being 

 obscurely margined with rufous ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 rufous-brown with darker brown tips ; quill-lining deep fawn- 

 colour below ; " bill blackish grey, becoming paler at the base ; 

 legs and feet greenish grey; iris straw-yellow "(Gould). Total 

 length 9-5 inches, culmen 1, wing 3-7, tail 4-1, tarsus I'lo. 



Hub. Northern and North-western Australia, and extending 

 down the western coast as far as Champion Bay. 



