16. SlIICROENIa. 



209 



Lwn ? { "^r ^"^""^-i-™^^" ; primary-coverts eiatirely dark 

 brown; forehead a ring of feathers round the eye, and sides of face 



bu? nn W t 'T ;I''^ ' ^^'^t^-^thr^^t' f«^-e "eck, and chest orange: 



lth\lr7ri' somewhat washed with ochre ; sides of body brown 

 n f 1 "i r^'^'^'f '^"'^'^^ thighs dusky brown; under win- 

 coverts hght buff, as also the inner edge of the quills below axH- 



tT^rtrT''' "i^^'^' ^n^"'^"^ ^^^ ^i^- «f ^^« b--"' Total 

 Sf7?.S;^!;:i)"'"^" '-''^ ^^^^^ ^^•^^^' *-^ l-'- tarsus 0-6. 



J-ot^/*^ «,«?,. lletaining for a time the brown pluma-e of the 

 female, bu ..th blue wings and tail, aud with mori o le^s blue on 



//J'f T ' T^' r"" ''''''"' *-l--erts. (M.S. H. J. Ely.^^ 

 China Himalayas, ranging into the mountains of Western 



b S Jd'sk' nT'- «•, , • ^^- "• "'^dgson, Esq. [P.]. 



0. d ad.sk. Native Sikhim, L. Mandelli, Esq. fP 1 



.. ? ad., d. d juv. sk. Sikhim. l, MandeUi, Esq. [P.j. 



16. SMICEORNIS. 



Smicroniis, Gould, P. Z. S. 184:> n 1,3:3 « n^^'^^' 



J ' P- ^'-'-' b. navescens. 



Haiir/e. Confined to Australia. 



Kei/ to tlu Sjpecies. 



a. Colour above dull olive-yellow; lores, eyebrow 

 aud eai-coverts light reddish brown; under 

 surface pale yellowish buff ; • ., • .^ 



h. Colour abfye pde ohve-yellow ; " iores' and ^y^l ^— ''-' P- 209. 

 brow whitish ; under surface sulphur-yellow . . Jiuvc-scens, p. 210. 



1. Smicrornis brevirostris. 

 Psilopus brevirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837 p 187 

 fenucroruis bi^virostn.., Gotdd, B. Audr. Mio, ii. pi. 10.3; £n Co>isn 



T>„ 1 V ; P' • ' ^.""'""ih P>: Liim. Sac. A^. S'. W. ii r, 183 



Smicrornis occidentalis, Bp. Coyisp i p •'OS * 



Acanthiza brevirostris, Gray, Hand-l. B.\. p.' 223, no. 3149 



bri^htf rtb.^'''''"l '?^°"' '^°'*^ "^"^ olive-yellow, somewhat 

 with he back -^'^'^ =" -^r'"'"*' = ^'"^' umber-brown, contrasting 

 with the back ; wings dark brown, the coverts and nuiUs mar-ined 



