502 TTMKLim.T';. 



and a narrow eyebrow white ; eai^covcrts pale brown M'ith fulvous 

 streaks, more distinct below the eye ; cheeks dull white, streaked 

 with black ; throat purer white, very plainly streaked with black 

 down the centre of the feathers ; remainder of under surface olive- 

 yellow, brighter on the Hanks, the breast, sides of body, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts streaked with black ; abdomen uniform ; thighs 

 reddish brown ; axillaries olive-yellowish tinged with brown ; 

 \;nder wing-coverts pale reddish buff ; quills light brown below, 

 ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner web ; " biU and feet 

 brownish Hesh-colonr ; iris light sandy buff" {Gould). Total length 

 5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-'3, tail 2-1. tarsus 0-95. 

 Hah. Tasmania and South Australia. 



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



(Type of species.) 

 h. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. Melbourne. CTOuld Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Mount Gambler, South Gould Collection. 



Australia. 



c,/. Ad. St. South Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



g, h. Ad. sk. South Australia F. D. Godman and 0. 



(Cuckere/l). Salvin, ICsqrs. [P.]. 



t, A, /. Ad. sk. Tasmania. EonaldGunn, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Calamanthus campestris. 



Praticola campestris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 171. 



Calamanthus campestris, Gould, B. Austr. iii. pi. 71 (1848) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 103 (1848); Bp. Consji. i. p. 280 (1850); Eeicheiib. 



Vof/. KeuhoU. p. 2P5 (1850); Gould, Hayidb. B. Austr. i. p. 389 



(1865); Graij, Hand-l. B.i. p. 203, no. 2871 (1869): Bamsay, 



Froc. Linn. 8oc. N. 6". W. ii. p. 186 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above light ashy brown, with longitudinal 

 streaks of darker brown down the centre of each feather ; rump 

 uniform, and tinged with isabelliue ; wing-coverts browner than 

 the back, especially the greater series and the primary-coverts, 

 which are edged with paler brown ; quills brown, externally edged 

 with paler brown, inclining to whity brown on the margins of the 

 primaries, and the inner secondaries edged with white near the 

 tips ; tail-feathers light reddish brown, with a broad subterminal 

 bar of black before the tip, which is light brown in the centre 

 feathers and white in all the others; forehead and sinciput light 

 rufous or bay, obscurely streaked with dusky brown, more distinct 

 on the nape, where the rufous colour fades away ; lores and a toler- 

 ably plain eyebrow white ; in front of the eye a rufous spot ; ear- 

 coverts light rufous, very narrowly streaked with white shaft-lines ; 

 cheeks and throat white, the lower throat and remainder of the under 

 surface pale yellowish, the sides of the body and flanks deeper- 

 coloured and inclining to isabelline brown ; thighs light rufous, as 

 also the under tail-coverts, which are shaded with brown before the 

 tips, which arc white : the centre of the throat, fore neck, and 



