2. EPHTHIANTTRA. G67 



collar tipped with ashy grey ; sides of the body and flanks bluish 

 grey ; thighs black ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries sooty brown ; quills sooty brown below, inner edges 

 ashy ; " bill and feet black ; iris in some beautiful reddish buff, in 

 others yeUow, with a slight tinge of red on the outer edge of the 

 pupil" (Gould). Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0"5, wing 2-7, 

 tail 1-55, tarsus 0*75. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in its duller colour, the 

 upper parts being ashy brown, gi'eyer on the head, which is other- 

 wise like the back and does not show the white forehead or black 

 crown ; wings and tail lighter brown than in the male, the quills 

 with paler brown margins, the white spots on the tail-feathers not 

 so extended ; lores and eyelid dull whitish ; ear-coverts light ashy 

 brown ; cheeks, throat, and underparts duU white, somewhat 

 washed with ashj', especially on the sides of the body ; on the fore 

 neck a poorly-developed black baud, not extending across the neck. 

 Total length 4"5 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 2'65, tail 1*6, tarsus 0"7. 



Hah. Australia. 



a. S ad. sk. S. Australia {J. G.). Goidd Collection. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Murray river (J. G.), Goidd Collection. 



c. d. cJ ad.sk. S.Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 

 e,/. (5 ad.etjuv.sk. Interior of South Australia. Capt. Sturt [P.]. 



ff, h. (S ad. sk. Cape York {Cockei-ell). F. D. Godman and 0. 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 i. (S ad. sk. Hammack Island. J. Macgillivray, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 k. Ad. st. Australia. Purchased. 



2. Ephthianura tricolor. 



Ephthianura tricolor, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 159 ; Graj/, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 205 (1847) ; Gould, B. Austr. foho, iii. pi. 65 (1848) ; Sturt, 

 Bxped. Ce7itr. Austr. ii. App. p. 26 (1849) ; Reichenb. Vog. Keuholl. 

 p. 89 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 299 (1850); Gould, Handb. B. 

 Austr. i. p. 380 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 249, no. 3609 

 (1869) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 'Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 186 (1878). 



Adult male. General colour above dusky blackish brown, the 

 mantle- feathers mixed with ashy brown, more distinct on hind neck ; 

 lower back ashy ; wing-coverts dusky blackish brown, slightly mottled 

 with dusky ; the median and greater coverts margined and tipped with 

 dull whitish ; bastard wing and primary-coverts dusky brown, nar- 

 rowly edged with white ; quills diisky blackish brown, tipped with 

 white and margined with whity brown, margin of secondaries 

 broader and tinged with rose-colour ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 rich crimson ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with whity brown ; centre 

 feathers margined with whitish along the inner web, all the others 

 with distinct spots of white at the tip of the inner web ; crown of 

 head bright crimson ; lores, feathers round the eye,, and ear- coverts 

 dusky blackish, with a slight rosy shade on the latter ; cheeks and 

 throat white ; fore neck and rest of the under surface brighter 



