266 JTELIPHAGID^. 



brown, each feather broadly margined with brownish grey ; feathers 

 of the rump and the upper tail-co7crts, breast, flanks, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts dirty yellowish white, each feather with a longitu- 

 dinal, broad, central streak of dark brown, darkest on the breast, 

 more diffused on the upper tail-coverts ; wings dark brown, the 

 innermost secondaries and the wing-coverts margined with whitish, 

 rest of the secondaries and some of the primaries with yellowish 

 margins ; a subocular line, upper half of the ear-coverts, and part 

 of the sides of the neck blackish brown : rest of the sides of the neck 

 white or yellowish white, each feather with a sharply marked blackish- 

 brown central streak ; the bristle-like feathers on the cheeks and 

 beneath the ear-coverts white ; chin, throat, fore neck and upper chest, 

 edge of wing, under wing-coverts, and inner margin of quills rufous 

 buff or fulvous ; tail dark brown, with large white tips : the bare 

 part of the face (viz. the part between the eye and the cheeks) and 

 base of the bill soft, pulpy, and of a pinky flesh-colour ; iris bluish 

 lead-colour ; feet olive. 



The female resembles the male exactly in coloration, but is 

 smaller in size. 



Young birds are like the female, but want the bristles on the 

 cheeks. 



Ad. (^ . Culmen 0-9-1 inch, wing 4-4-4-7, tail 4-4-4-8, tarsus 1-0. 

 Ad. ? . „ 0-9 „ „ 4-2-4-4, „ 4-1, „ 0-95. 



Ohs. Half the number of the specimens examined by me have the 

 terminal half of the bristles on the cheeks and ear-coverts foxy 

 yellow ; this cannot, however, be a sexual character, as it is inde- 

 pendent of size and age. 



Hab. From New South Wales to South and West Austral . 



a. Ad. sk. South Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



b, c, d,e. [ d 2 ] ad. sk. South Austraha. Capt. Sturt [P.]. 



f. Ad. st. South Australia. Sir George Grey [P-]- 



'(/. Ad. sk. Port Lincoln. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



)i. d' ad. sk. N. S. Wales. Gould Collection. 



i, k, I. Ad. sk. South Australia. F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]- 



11. LEPTORNIS. ^ 



Type. 

 Leptomis, Hombr. et Jacq. Voyage Pole Sud, Ois. pi. 17. 



iiof. 1 L. samoensis. 



Philedon (pt.), Reichenbach, Handhuch spec. Orn. i. 



p. 141 (1852). 



Bill longer than the rest of head and slender. First primary 

 long. Tip of wing formed by primaries 4-6. Tail slightly rounded, 

 nine tenths of the length of the wing. Tarsus scutellated in front 

 and comparatively long. Plumage soft and very plain, dusky or 

 duU yellowish olive. Length of wing 5-7*2 inches. 



Range. Polynesia. 



