386 TIMELIID^. 



Kitta virescens, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 396 (1826); Waffl. Stjst. Av., 



Ptilou. sp. 3 (1827). 

 Ptilouorliyncluis siuitliii, Vig. Sf Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 264 



(1827, 'ex Lath. MSS.); Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi. ii. (1838); Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 325 (1846). 

 Ptilorhynchus smithii, Bp. Consp. i. p. 370 (1850) ; ScU. Mm. P.-B., 



Coraces, i. p. 204, no. 4336 (1867). 

 Ailiircedus smithii, Cah. Miis. Hein. Th. i. p. 213 (1850); Goidd, 



Handb. B. Aiistr. i. p. 446 (1865). 

 -^liu-oedus crassirostris, Sclater, Ibis, 1868, p. 501 ; EUiot, Monogr. 



Parad. pi. xxxiv. (1873) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn, Soc. N. S. Wales, 



ii. p. 187 (1878). 



Adult. Above bright grass-green, with a greyish-white patch on 

 the side of the lower neck ; primaries slightly shaded externally 

 with bluish, the inner webs of the quills greyish brown ; median 

 and greater wing-coverts, as well as the secondaries, tipped with 

 yellowish white ; tail-feathers bright grass-green, inclining to greyish 

 black on the inner web, and tipped with white, more largely on 

 the inner web ; head and neck green, rather more yellowish than 

 the back, the feathers bluish underneath when lifted, the hind neck 

 and sides of the neck, as well as the mantle, slightly streaked with 

 minute shaft-lines of buffy white ; sides of face dull olive-greenish, 

 including the ear-coverts, which have a dull sort of silvery lustre ; 

 round the eye a ring of whitish feathers ; the fore part of the cheeks, 

 feathers below the eyes and on the malar line, slightly spotted with 

 black ; throat dull grepsh, slightly washed with olive-green and 

 minutely spotted with white ; rest of under surface of body dull 

 olive-greenish, all the feathers mesially streaked with a distinct 

 lanceolate spot of white ; centre of the belly, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts uniform yellowish ; under wing-coverts whitish, barred 

 across with ashy grey and slightly washed with green, especially on 

 the edge of the wing ; " bill light horn-colour ; feet whitish ; iris 

 brownish red " (Gould). Total length 12 inches, cnlmen 1*25, wing 

 6'35, tail 5, tarsus 1-95. 



The Common Cat^bird is found in New South Wales, extending 

 to the Wide-Bay district in Eastern Austraha. 



a. Ad.sk. Australia. Linnean Society [P.]. (Type 



of P. smithii.) 



h. Ad. St. Australia. 



c. Ad. St. New South Wales. 



d. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Collection. 



e. Ad. sk. Northern Queensland. Gould Collection. 



f. g. Ad. sk. Queensland (J. T. Cock- F. Godman and O. Salvin, 



erell). Esqrs. [P.]. 



5. .ffilurcedus buccoides. 



Kitta buccoides, Tem?n. PI. Col. 575 (1835) ; id. Tabl. Meth. PI. Col. 



p. 10 (1840) ; «■. Midi. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 22 



(1839-44) ; Eosenb. J.f. O. 1864, p. 122. 

 Cissa buccoides, Gt-ay, Gen. B. iii. A])p. p. 14 (1849). 

 Ptilorli}Tichus buccoides, Bp. Consp. i. p. 370 (1850) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 



