7. A2f'l'HOKN13. 255 



/. Ad. St. East Australia. F. G. Moore, Esq. [P.] 



g. S ad. sk. Queensland ( Cocke- F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



rell). vin. Esqrs. [P.] 



h. S ad. sk. MoretoD Bay, No- Gould Collection. 



vember 1858. 



i. Juv. sk. West Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



4. Meliornis mystacalis. 



Meliphaga mvstacalis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 161 ; id. B. Austr. 



iv. pi. 26 ; 'Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 158, no. 2057. 

 Meliornis mvstacalis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 117 (1850) ; Bj}. C. A. i. 



p. 393 ; Reichenh. Handb. Meropince, p. 122, pi. 490. figs. 3456-57 ; 



id. Vog. NeuhoU. no. 565 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 491 ; Ranuay, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 188. 



Adult female. Differs from M. sericea as follows : — The white 

 feathers on the upper parts of the head are restricted to the long 

 superciliary stripe, leaving the middle part of the forehead and base of 

 the culmen black ; the white elongated feathers of the cheeks include 

 some of the ear-coverts, and terminate in a point towards the shoulder. 

 Culmen 0-93 inch, wing 2-7, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-82. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Near Perth, West AustraUa. J. Goidd, Esq. [0.]. 



7. ANTHORNIS. 



Type. 



Anthomiza, Stcai)is. Classif. B. ii. p. 327 (1837) A. melanura. 



Anthoruis, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 15 (1841) A. melanura. 



Primaries of Anthomis melanura. 



Bill equal to the length of the head, slender and curved. Nostrils 

 operculated, and not covered with feathers. First primary compara- 

 tively long. Tip of wing formed by the third to sixth primaries ; 

 second primary ending abruptly, narrowed towards the tip ; secon- 

 daries slightly shorter. Tailemarginated,equaltothewings in length. 

 Anterior toes short ; tarsus covered with transverse scales. 



lianjc New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. 



1. Anthoruis melanura. 



Mocking Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 735 (1782). 



Certliia melanura, Sj)arrm. 3Ius. Carls, pi. v. (1786). 



Certhia sanuio, Gin. Syst. Xat. i. p. 471 (1788). 



Philedon dumerilii, Less. Voy. Coq., Zool. i. p. 644, pi. 21. fig. 2 (1826). 



