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and of a brilliant orange -yellow, deepening on the crown into 

 reddish orange ; remainder of mantle and entire back, as well as 

 the tail, black ; wing-coverts black, as also the i)rimary- coverts ; 

 first two primaries black ; remainder of the primaries orange-yellow, 

 except along the outer webs and at the tip, encroaching down the 

 inner web ; secondaries orange- yellow, tipped with black, excepting 

 the innermost ; lores, eyebrow, sides of face, and neck, as well as 

 the entire under surface of the body and under tail-coverts, black ; 

 under wing-coverts black, the greater series golden yellow, like 

 the lining of the quills ; " bill yellow ; legs and feet black ; iris pale 

 yellow" {Gould). Total length U-o inches, culmen 1-15, wing 5-1, 

 tail 4-75, tarsus 1'45. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, mottled with white centres to the feathers, edged with black ; 

 scapulars like the back ; wing-coverts and quills plain brown, the 

 latter dusky brown on the inner webs, the innermost secondaries 

 with an irregular white spot at the tip ; upper tail-coverts brown, 

 the longer ones with a mesial streak of whitish ; tail-feathers brown, 

 more dusky on the inner web ; forehead light brown, mottled with 

 minute dusky tips to the feathers ; hinder crown and occiput black ; 

 sides of head, eyebrow, and nape reddish brown, mottled with dusky 

 edges to the feathers ; hind neck whitish, with dusky margins, 

 followed by a patch of black across the lower hind neck ; lores and 

 base of forehead buffy whitish ; cheeks reddish brown, like the sides 

 of the face ; chin and sides of throat light reddish, with the centre 

 and lower part of throat black ; remainder of under surface of body 

 whity brown, uniform on the abdomen, the breast and sides of the 

 body spotted with blackish-brown margins to the feathers ; the 

 thighs and under taU-coverts reddish brown ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries like the breast and barred across with dusky brown ; 

 quills brown below, light reddish along the inner web ; " bill and 

 feet black; iris brown " (Go M?t/). Total length 10'5 inches, culmen 

 1-15, wing 5"35, tail 4-5, tarsus 1'5. 



The Eegent-bird is found in New South Wales, ranging along 

 the east coast of Australia as high as the Wide-Bay district and 

 Port Denison. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Brushes of the Hunter, J. Gould, Esq. 



Sept. 1839. 



6, c. c? $ ad. sk. Queensland. Purchased. 



d.e. c? 2 ad. sk. Queensland (J. T. Cockerel!). F. Godman and 0. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



/. cJ ad. sk. Australia. Gould Collection. 



ff. if ad. sk. Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



h. (S juv. sk. AustraUa. J. Cunningham, Esq. [P.]. 



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