242 MusciCAriDJE. 



d"'. Lores and feathers round tlie eye ru- 



fescent nanu, p. L'4G. 



d' . Lores yellow, as also the cheeks, throat, and 

 entire under surface ; head olive-yellow, 

 like the back pnjminui, p. 247. 



1. Pcecilodryas cerviniveutris. 



Petroica? cerviniventris, Gunld, P.Z.S. ]8o7, p. 221 ; id. B. Austr. 



Slip])!, pi. 15. 

 Precilodiyaa cerviniventris, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 288; 



Jiamsai/, Pr. Linn. Sue. N. S. W. ii. p. 18.3 ; Sliarpc, Nvtes Leyden 



Mus. i. no. 7, p. 25. 

 Petroica cerviniveutris. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 220, no. 330.3. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above amoky brown, 

 darker and more chocolate-brown on the head ; wings blackish 

 brown, excepting the inner secondaries, which arc lighter brown, 

 more like the back ; greater wiug-coverts tipped with white ; all 

 the quills with a white bar near the base ; the primaries with a 

 narrow white mark about halfway from the end of the quills, the 

 secondaries rather broadly tipped with white ; tail brown, tipped 

 with white, increasing in extent towards the outermost; sides .of 

 face blackish brown, including the feathers in front of the eye, those 

 at base of lower mandible streaked with white ; a broad streak of 

 white skirting the sides of the crown from the nostrils to above the 

 ear-coverts ; throat white ; fore neck and breast grey ; abdomen 

 whitish : thighs dusky black ; sides of body and under tail-coverts 

 light fawn-colour : under wing-coverts white, with a large patch of 

 blackish brown near the edge of the wing ; quills brown below, 

 conspicuously barred with white near their bases; "iris brown" 

 {Elsey). Total length 6 inches, culmcn O'G, wing 3-3, tail 2-G5, 

 tarsus 0-85. 



Hah. North-western Australia. 



rt. Ad. sk. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



(Ty]ie of species.) 

 h. S ad. sk. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



c. c? ad. sk. Depot, V'ictoria River. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



2, Pcecilodryas superciliosa. 



Petroica superciliosa, Gordd, P. Z. S. 184G, p. lOG ; id. B. Austr. fob 

 iii. pi. 9 ; Bp. Cmisp. i. p. 299 ; Reichenb. Viiy. Neuholl. pp. 95, 

 289; Finsch, Neu^Guinea, p. 167; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 229, 

 no. 3304. 



Pcecilodryas superciliosa, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 289 ; Ramsay, 

 Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 183 ; S'harpe, Notes Leyden Mus. i. 

 no. 7, p. 25. 



Adult. General colour above brown, much darker on the head ; 

 the scap)ulars and lesser wing-coverts like the back, the median 

 series dark brown, ti])])ed with the same colour as the back : greater 

 and primary-coverts blackish brown, the innermost greater coverts 

 tipped with white ; quills blackish brown, paler towards the tips, 



