2SS 



MUSCICAPID^K, 



throat, and breast velvety blue-black, the feathers on the sides of 

 the upper breast tipped with turquoise-blue ; centre of the body 

 below whitish, the tianks, sides of bod)-, and thighs fulvous-brown ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillarics fulvescent ; quills brown below, 

 nnrrowly edged with whitish along the inner web; "bill black; 

 feet brown; iris blackish brown" (Gould). Total length 5-5 

 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2-15, tail 2-65, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. General colour above rusty brown, darker brown 

 on the head ; wings dark brown, the coverts and secondaries edged 

 with the same brown as the back, the margins to the primaries 

 much paler ; tail-feathers dull blue, the outer ones slightly tipped 

 with white ; lores and feathers round the eye rufous ; ear-coverts 

 brown, washed with rufous ; cheeks and under surface of body diill 

 white, the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts fulvous-brown ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish buif, the small ones 

 near the edge of the wing brown with whitish edges ; qiiiUs brown 

 below, fulvescent along the inner web ; " bill reddish brown ; feet 

 fleshy brown" (Gould). Total length 5-1 inches, culmen 0*45, 

 wing 2-2, tail 3, tarsus 1. 



Hab. Tasmania and the islands of Bass's Straits (Goidd). South 

 Australia and Victoria (RamscDj). 



a. Pull. St. Tasmania. 



b, c. cJ ad. ; d. ^ juv. st. Tasmania. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 

 e. 2 ad. ,sk. Tasmania. J. Gould, Esq. [C.J. 



/) ff- 2 ad. st. Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P.l 



h, i. ^ ad. sk. Tasmania, Antarctic Expedition [C.]. 



/', /. c? ad. sk. Tasmania. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Malurus melanotus. 



Malurus melanotus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 163 ; id. B. Austr. fol. 

 iii. pi. 20; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 165 ; Bp. Co/isp. i. p. 218; ReicJwnb. 

 Voff. Nndwll. pp. 98, 291 ; Goidd, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 322 ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 204, no. 2878 ; Biyyles, Orn. Austr. pi. 44. 

 fig. 4 ; Bamsay, Br. Linn. Sue. N. S. W. ii. p. 184. 



Adidt male. Head and nape rich enamelled cobalt-blue, inclining 

 to turquoise-blue at the base of the forehead and round the eye- 

 feathers, in front of the latter black ; sides of crown and sides of 

 neck black, extending in a tolerably defined collar round the hinder 

 neck, and separating the crown from the rest of the back, which is 

 also rich enamelled cobalt-blue ; lower back and rump velvety 

 black ; upper tail- coverts cobalt-blue, the longer ones deeper blue ; 

 tail-feathers dull blue, tipped with white, more broadly on the outer 

 ones, which are also edged with white along their outer webs ; 

 scapulars and wing-coverts dull brown, edged with dingy greenish 

 blue ; quills brown, edged with a little brighter blue, some of the 

 inner secondaries entirely blue ; ear-coverts and tuft on the hinder 

 check bright turquoise-blue, contrasting with the blue of the crown ; 

 throat and breast cobalt-blue, the feathers on the sides of the latter 

 black with broad blue ends ; flank-feathers blackish, with whitish 

 ."haft-lines and blue tips : centre of the body, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts dull whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries fulvous ; 



