2. EPHTHIANURA. 669 



tinge ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills brown, edged nar- 

 rowly with whity brown, the secondaries with yellow, and the 

 latter broadly whitish at the ends ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 bright yellow ; tail-feathers blackish brown edged with yellow, the 

 two centre tail-feathers tipped with white, the rest with a large 

 white spot at the end of the inner web, outer web of the external 

 feather whitish ; crown of head orange-yellow, with a few brown 

 streaks on the nape ; lores and feathers below the eye black ; ear- 

 coverts orange-yeUow ; cheeks and throat black ; hinder throat, 

 sides of neck, fore neck, and breast orange-yellow, paler on the 

 abdomen ; sides of body and flanks streaked with brown ; thighs and 

 under tail-coverts yellow ; under wing-coverts and asillaries light 

 ashy brown edged with yellow ; quills light ashy brown below, 

 inner edges paler; "bill black; feet brown" {Gould). Total 

 length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2--t5, tail 1-45, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Browner than the male, with the lower rump and 

 upper tail-coverts yellow ; no yellow on the head, which is brown 

 like the back, with a few dusky centres to the feathers ; underneath 

 light ashy brown washed with pale yeUow ; whity brown on the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts ; wings and tail as in the male, 

 with very distinct tips of light ashy on the secondaries and tail- 

 feathers. 



Young male. Similar to the old female, but rather brighter 

 yellow underneath, and the lores and sides of face washed with 

 brighter yellow. 



Hab. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, extending 

 into the interior. 



a. (5 juv. ; b. 2 ad.sk. Australia. Purchased. 



e. cS ad. ; d,e. ? ad. sk. Interior of South Capt. Sturt [C.]. 



Australia. 



f,ff. d" 5 ad.; /*. 5 Australia (C'ocfere//). F. D. Godman and O. 



juv. sk. Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



i, k. (S ad. st. South AustraHa. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



4. Ephthianura crocea. 



Ephthianura crocea, C'asteln. ^- Samsai/, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S W. 

 i. p. 380 (1877) ; Ra^nsay, op. cit. ii. jj. 186 (1878). 



Adult male. Lores, sides of head, chin, throat, and the whole of 

 the under surface of the body, under and upper tail-coverts bright 

 yellow ; across the chest a (lunate ?) spot ot" black ; crown of the 

 head, sides and back of the neck, and the sides of the chest olive- 

 yellow ; back brown, washed with olive-yellow ; tail blackish brown 

 the base white, and all (?) the feathers more or less tipped with 

 white ; margins of the outer webs, towards the base, yellow ; win»s 

 brown, darker on the secondaries and upper coverts ; primaries nar- 

 rowly edged with yellow on the outer webs, the coverts and secon- 

 daries rather broadly margined with whitish, and edged with yellow 

 on the outer webs ; secondaries margined with white at the tips • 



