11. PETRffiCA. 165 



Key to the Species. 



a. With red on the under surface of the body. 



(('. With a white mark on the forehead. 



a". Wing-coverts with a white patch. 



a'". Wing with a broad white longitudinal 



bar, formed by the outer web of the 



inner secondaries being white. 



a*. Upper surface black ; frontal white 



mark large ; tliroat black ; breast 



scarlet ^eggii, p. 165. 



i''. Upper surface slaty grey ; frontal mark 



small; only the chin black; remainder 



of throat and breast orange-scarlet . . phcenicea, p. 166. 



h'". With no longitudinal band of white 



down the wing ; inner gi-eater coverts 



white, forming a large shoulder-patch. 



c*. No white on the outer tail-feathers . . multicolor, p. 168. 



d*. Outer tail-feathers white, black at base 



and at tip. 



a'. Throat black ^j;<s«7/a, p. 168. 



6'. Throat dusky, washed with scarlet . . similis, p. 169. 



h". Wing-coverts without any white on them 



at all ; breast pink ; frontal mark very 



small. 



c'". With no white on the tail rhodinogastra, p. 170. 



d'". Outer tail-feathers for the most part 



white rosea, p. 170. 



h'. Forehead red. 



c". Throat black goodenovii, p. 171. 



d". Throat red in the centre ramsayi, p. 172. 



h. With no red on the under siu-face of the body. 



c'. Throat black. 



e". Size larger; wing 3'5-3'6 inches; no white , ,■ j , i-o 

 , ° p , "'i ' mcoior (5 , p. 1 / .3. 



spot on torehead \ ■ . ^ ^^^ 



^ [picatn (J, p. 1/4. 



/". Size smaller ; wing not exceeding2-9 inches ; 

 a white spot on the forehead, 



e'". Breast white toitoi, p. 174. 



/'". Breast yellow '. . . mucrocephala, p. 176. 



d'. Throat ashj^ ; base of tail white hicolor 5 , p. 1 74. 



e'. Throat dusky brown ; only the outer tail- 

 feather white at base and for whole extent 

 of outer web vittata, p. 177. 



1. Petroeca leggii. 



Sylvia erythrogastra, Lewin, Birds of Neio Holland, pi. 17 (nee 



"Lath.). 

 Scarlet-breasted Flycatcher, Latham, Gen. Hist. B. vi. p. 210. 

 Muscicapa multicolor, Vig. 4" Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 279 (nee 



Gm.). 

 Petroica multicolor (nee Gm.), Swains. Zool. IHmfr. ser. 2, vol. i, 



pi. 36; Gould, Si/». B. Aitstr. part 1, pi. 7. fig. 3; id. B. Atistr. 



folio, iii. pi. 3 ; lip. Consj). i. p. 2!t9 ; licuheidt. Vog. Keiiholl. p. 91; 



Pelz. Reis. Novara, Voq. p. 64 ; Gould, Hundh, B. Austr. i. p. 279 : 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p.' 228, no. 3289. 



