1. ARTAMU8. 19 



two centre tail-feathers entirely black, the rest black, broadly tipped 

 with white ; entire wing ashy, the quiUs siibterminally blackish, 

 very narrowly edged with white at the ends ; lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts black, the longest of the latter white at the tips ; 

 thighs clear ashy; under wing- coverts and axillaries and inner 

 edge of quills white. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 4-65, 

 tail 3, tarsus 0*7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but a little browner. Total 

 length 7'5 inches, wing ■i-75, tail 3, tarsus 0-7. 



Young. Above brown, the feathers of the head and back streaked 

 down the centre and tipped with ochreous brown ; tlie feathers of 

 the lower back and rump as well as the upper tail-eovorts margined 

 with ochraceoiis ; wing-coverts margined in the same way as the 

 back ; quiUs more broadly tipped with white ; under surface of body 

 ashy, the under tail-coverts tipped with pale brown. 



Hah. North-western Australia. 



a. $ ad. sk. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsev, Esq. [P.]. 



b, c. Ad. ; d, e. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey.Esq. [P.]. 

 Juv. sk. (Type.-: of species.) 



f> 9- d 2 jiiv-i Fitzrov River, N.W. Australia Capt. Bowver Bower 

 A. J ad. sk. {T/H. Bounjer Botcer). [P.]. 



16. Artamus sordidus. 



. Sordid Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 186 (1801). 

 Turdus sordidus, Lath. Ind. Oni. ISuppl. p. xliii (1801). 

 Artamus liueatus, Vieill. N. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. xvii. p. 297 (1817). 

 Ocvpterus albovittatus, Valenc. Mem. Mits. vi. p. 23, pi. viii. 



(1820) ; Less. Traite, p. 37, pi. 44. fig. 2 (1831) ; Gould, Syn. B. 



Aiistr. part 1 (1837). 

 Artamus albovittatus, Vig. 4" Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 210 



(1826). 

 Leptopteryx albovittata, Waqler, Syst. Ai\, Leptopteryx, sp. 5 



(1827). 

 Artamus sordidus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 285 (1845) ; Gould, B. Austr. 



fol. ii. pi. 27 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mas. As. Soc. p. 200 (1849) ; 



Reichenh. Voq. NeuhoU. p. 168 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 344 (ISoO) ; 



Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 208 (1850) ; Goidd, Handh. B. Austr. 



i. p. 143 (1865) ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 327 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 289, no. 4274 (1869) ; Muller, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 279 ; Ramsaif, 



P. Z. S. 1875, p. 584; id. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 179 



(1878) ; Sharps in Rowley's Orn. Misc. iii. p. 199 (1878) ; Ramsay, 



Tab. List Austr. B. p. 3 (1888). 



Adxilt male. General colour above chocolate-brown, the lower 

 back and rump darker, the upper tail-coverts slightly blacker ; lores 

 and fore part of cheeks dusky : under surface of body chocolate- 

 brown, the lower abdomen and flanks rather more rufesccnt ; under 

 tail-coverts black ; under wing-coverts white ; wing slaty black ; 

 quills dark ashy, the primaries externally white ; tail-feathers 

 bhifk, ti]ipcd with white, the two centre ones entirely black, with 



