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which they are at once distinguished by the brown on the underparts, 

 which in the nestUng covers the whole of the breast, and as the bird 

 advances in age gradually disappears, leaving the chest striped with 

 brown, and the flanks much spotted with fulvous ; throat and sides 

 of the face ochraceous buff; forehead very indistinctly indicated, the 

 moustache and feathers below the eye and behind the ear-coverts deep 

 chocolate, and broader than in the adults ; feathers of the upper 

 surface edged with rufous, and spotted and half-barred with the same 

 colour, the bars on the tail a little narrower and more rufous than in 

 the adults. 



Hah. Australia and Van Diemen's Land. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Mrs. Mauger [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Australia. A. Cunningham, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Juv. sk, Australia. A. Cunningham, Esq. [P.|. 



d. Ad. sk. Van Diemen's Land. Ronald Guim, Esq. [P.J. 



e. Ad. sk. Van Diemen's Land. J. Gould, Esq. [C.l 

 /, g. Juv. sk. Van Diemen's Land. J. Gould, Esq. [C. 

 h. $ ad. sk. Van Diemen's Land. The Admiralty [P. 

 i. $ ad. sk. Van Diemen's Land. The Admiralty [P. 

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

 /. Pull. sk. N.E. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



78. CERCHNEIS, „ 



Type. 



Cerchneis, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 970 C. rupicola. 



Erythropus, Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1270 C. vespertina. 



^gypius, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 20 (1829, nee Savign.) C. tinnuncula. 



Pannyschistes, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 87 (1829) C. vespertina. 



Falcula, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. 1837, p. 365 C. tinnuncula. 



Tichornis, Kaup, Classif. Sliug. u. Vog. p. 108 (1844). . C. naumanni. 



Poecilomis, Kaup, t. c. p. 108 "(1844) C. sparveria. 



Dissodectes, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 248 C. dickersoni. 



Range. The whole of the Old and New Worlds, excepting Oceania. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail uniform, with one subterminal band only. 

 a'. Tail blue. 



a". Back spotted or barred with black. 

 «'". Heaxi blue or washed with blue. 



a^ Under wing-coverts white, spotted 

 with black. 

 a'. Underneath rufous, streaked with 

 black ; throat and under tail- 

 coverts fulvous tinnunctda <J , p. 425. 



6'. Underneath deep rufous, streaked 

 with black ; throat and under tail- 

 coverts deep butf _ nqncola $ , p. 429. 



b^. Under wing-coverts pure white, im- 



spotted cenchroides $ , p. 431. 



V". Head deep rufous, like black, streaked 



with black moluccensis S , P- 430, 



b". Back uniform. 



