290 I'KIONOi'ID.I!. 



Keif to the Species. 



Bill dark blackish or deep brown. 

 a'. Back umber-brown, contrasting with the grey 

 head and rump. 

 a". Bill stout, 0-y inch long ; white loral spot 



very distinct ; no eyebrow in adult harmonica, p. 290. 



h". Bill very long, 1 '2 inch ; white loral spot 



very faintly indicated ; a distinct eyebrow, rectirostris, p. 291. 

 b'. Back ashy brown, like the rest of the upper 

 surface. 



a'". Under tail-coverts white hrunnea, p. 291. 



V". Under tail-coverts bright fawn-buff. . . . riifiventris, p. 292. 

 Bill light yellowish horn-colour; eyebrow in- 

 distinct pallidirostris, p. 293. 



1. Collyriocincla harmonica. 



Harmonic Thrush, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Sitppl. p. 182. 

 Turdus harmonicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. SuppL p. xli. 

 Colluricincla cinerea, Vit/. Sf Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 214 ; Jard. 



&,- Selby, Lll. Orn. ii. pi. 71 ; Sw. Classif.B. ii. p. 221. 

 Lanius satm-ninus, Nordin. in Ermaii's Jieis. p. 14. 

 Colluriocincla harmonica, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 29.5; Gould, B. Ai/str. 



ii. pi. 7; Bp. Consp. i. p. 36(3; Gould, Handh. B. Amtr. i. p. 220; 



Gra;i. H(md-l. B. i. p. 385; Digr/les, Orn. Austr. pi. 34. fig. 1. 

 Pnigocichla harmonica, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 66. 



Adult. Head and nape grey ; hind neck, back, and scapulars 

 clear umber-brown ; least and median coverts uniform with the 

 back, the greater series ashy grey ; quiUs dark browu, externally 

 ashy grey, the secondaries slightly washed with olivaceous ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ashy grey ; tail ashy grey, the 

 feathers slightly tipped vpith whitish, the shafts brown above, 

 white below ; lores and feathers in front of the eye white ; round 

 the eye a ring of dusky grey plumes ; ear-coverts ashy grey, slightly 

 washed with brown ; cheeks whitish, grey on their hinder margin ; 

 under surface of body light ashy grey, the throat, centre of abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts ashy whitish ; 

 quills light brown below, whitish along the inner webs ; " bill 

 blackish brown ; feet dark greenish grey ; iris dark brown" (Gould). 

 Total length 9-8 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 5-15, tail 4-0, tarsus 

 1-25. 



Young. Distinguished by its rufous eyebrow and by the stripes 

 on the breast ; the whole colour of the upper surface is darker, the 

 ashy grey colour of the head and back being shaded with brown. 



Hab. Australia. 



a,b. Ad.juv.sk. Australia. Linnean Society. (Types 



of C. cinerea.) 

 c. Juv. St. Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 



a. cJ ad. sk. S. Australia. Sir George Grey [P. |. 



e,/. Jun. sk. S.Australia. Sir (ieorge Grey [P.]. 



y. Juv. sk. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell "[!'•]• 



