1. AETAMUS. jy 



^Yli-iQ^^ cinereus, Valenc. Mem. Mus. vi. p. 22, pi. ix. fig. 2 

 Leptopterjx cinereus, Wagler, Syst. Av., Leptopteryx, sp. 4 (1827). 

 Adult male. Above brown, with the head slightly paler- eve 

 brow and ear-coverts paler brown; under surface of body 'ashy 

 brown ; a narrow frontal line, lores, eyelid, cheeks, and fore 4rt 

 of ear-coverts and throat blackish; entire wino- dull ashy the 

 feathers externally with a narrow pale margin? lower back and 

 Ek bf T"? black; two centre^ail.feathcrs blacJ, t^' r^st 

 back broadly tipped with white; vent and under tdl-coverts 



nlt-'h' '^?,^''''' ^^'^ ^""^^ '""^'-^ t^^igb^ ^'^tenially white 

 a wena°V "'""T'^PrV ™^7 -i^g-overts and Lillar e 

 as M ell as the inner edge of the quills white : "bill bright greyish 

 blue at base, black at tip; legs and feet greenish grey iris dark 



^tt.tTJl^'!- ^'"S- ^'«*^^^-«^thV5 inched, iul'me^O t 

 wing -i yo, tail 6, tarsus 0-8o. 



Adult female. Like the male. 



brown Th/^'P'' '"'^''' '^ *^' ^"''^•^ ^"'^ ^"-^y °^°^tled with ashy 

 w^th a'shv J^ >^' f.'^ = ™™P '"^ "PP^^ tail-coverts black, mottled 

 with ashy white; the upper wing-coveris and scapulars marofned 

 with ashy brown, and the tips of all the qunis^ith a d&tioct 

 margin of white : » bill brown " {Ramsay) 

 Hub. Western Australia. 



"• ^'^^- '^'- Australia. Sir T. Mtchell [P.]. 



12. Artanms hypoleucus. 



p 7, • ^■.^- ^^■^^> P- -^1; ««^- -»• '4(<*<y. fol. ii. pi. 30 (1848) • 

 fP-C-"sp. 1. p. 344 (1850); Go.ld, Handb. B.\cstr.t^Td 

 (l&6o); Raima;/, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 383- Grai, Ham? / 7i f 



p. 48 18 7); Castelnau Sf Hamsaij, t. c. p. 380 (1877); Ramsa, 

 '^•lof-n«-.P; 1^(1878); Sharpe in Rowley's Orn.M^t^ 

 p. 196 (18/8) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 3 (1888). 



Adult Similar to^. cm^r^Ms, but distinguished by its white 

 under _tail-coverts. Total length 6-3 inches, culmen O'l wing 4 9 

 tail 2-oD, tarsus 0-S5. & ^ •^i 



ira6. Interior of Victoria to Queensland and Gulf of Carpentaria. 

 "• ^^- ^^- Interior of Australia. Gould Coll 



13. Artamus melanops. 



Artamus melanops, Goidd, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 198; id Handb B 

 Austr. 1^ p. 49 (1865) ; id. B. Austr. fol. Suppl^It Tmm)' 

 Gray H II j^ j. ^gg^ ^^_ ^3^3 l£J PocUnn 



HI. p. 197 (18/8); Ramsay, Tab. List Amtr. 5. p 3 (1888) 



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