il. PETKCErA. lyj 



Petroica ''°^f>G?uldPZ. S. 1839, p. 142 ; Orat,, Gen. B. i. p. 183 : 

 ^d. Hand-l. B. i. p. 228, no. 3298. '^ ' ^' ^- •'°'' ' 



Er^throdryas rosea, &o,^/,/, P z S. 1842, p. 112 ; id. B. Amtr. folio, 

 r T; L- 7A '^^- ]"'■'■ ^''"^'''"- PP- 89' 289 ; Bp. Camp. i. p. 299 

 Ns!w.t fspf"''"' ' '"• P^- ^' ^'''"'''^' ^"^ ^"^- '^''''■ 



Adult male. General colour above leaden grey, the least wing- 

 coverts coloured like the back; median and greater coverts, Is 

 well as the secondaries, brown, edged with grey like the back, 

 the primanes_ black with browner edges ; tail-feathers blackish 

 with minute tips of white, the three outermost with a large wedge- 

 shaped mark of white at the tip of the inner web, increasing in 

 extent towards the outermost ; sides of face, sides of neck, and throat 

 leaden grey the lower throat slightly washed with pink ; fore neck 

 and breast deep rose-pink; the abdomen, vent, and under taU-coverts 

 white ; thighs black ; under wing-coverts slaty grey, edged broadly with 

 i ^ ' quills dusky brown, white at the base of the secondaries ; " bill 

 and leet blackish brown ; gape and soles of the feet yeUow." Total 

 length 4-8 inches, culmeu 0-45, wing 2-6, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-6. 



AcMt female. Different from the male. Above dark ashy brown, 

 greyer on the rump ; least and median wing-coverts like the back, 

 the greater coverts and quills dark brown, the primaries with a 

 whitish spot near the base of the outer web, the secondaries white 

 at the base; tail dark brown, the outer feather white with an 

 oblique mark of brown from the base up the inner web, the penul- 

 timate one with a large wedge-shaped mark of white on the inner 

 web ; sides of face dark brown, the ear-coverts with whitish shaft- 

 lines ; on the forehead a small band of buff; under surface of body 

 dull white with a tinge of pink on the breast, flanks browner- 

 thighs dark brown ; under wing-coverts whitish ; quills dark brown 

 below, whitish at the base of the secondaries. Total length 4-5 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-55, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-6, 

 ^ •^"i;-^'^^^''^^'^- I^ockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide-Bay dis- 

 trict, llichmond and Clarence-Eiver districts; New South Wales • 

 Interior; Victoria. (Ramsai/, I. c.) 



°- ^ ^^- ^^- Austrnlia. Linnean Society [P.]. 



t>,c. cf 5 ad. sk. Austr.aha. 



8. PetrcBca goodenovii. 

 Muscieapa godenovii, Vii/. 8,- Horsf. Tr. Linn. Son. xv. p. 245 

 Petroica goodenovii, Jard. 1^- Selh}, 111. Orn. Add. to vol ii. ; Gould 

 Syn. B.Ausfr^ part 1, pi. 7. fig. 1 ; id. B. Austr. folio, iii. pi. 5 

 Gray Gen. :»• L P- 183 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 299; Reichenb Vog. 

 Miihol. pp 109, 289; Goidd, Handb. B. Amtr. i. p. 280- Grav 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 228, no. 3290. * ^' 



Petrceca goodenovii, Cah. Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 11 ; Bammy. Pr. Linn 



OOC. J\. j5. (J . 11. p. 18.1. ■ 



Adult male. General colour above black, slightly mottled with 

 white on the rump, the feathers being .^ubtcrminaliy marked with 



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