42. JIICROTRIBOXYX. 165 



iris orauge-rcd '' (J. Gould). Total length 14 inches, culmen 1-5.5, 

 wing 7"8, tail 3'4, tarsus '6'2o, middle toe and claw 3-1. 

 JJab. Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. 



a, b. Ad. st. Australia. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Australia. General Ilardwicke [P.]. 



(/. Ad. sk. Tasmania. Hume Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Ouse liiver, Tasmania. Hume Coll. 



42. MICROTRIBONYX. 



ivpe. 

 Microtribonyx, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. v. 



p. xxLx (Jan. l«y;i) M. veutralis. 



lianrje. Confined to Australia. 



1. Microtribonyx ventralis. 



Gallinula ventralis, Gould, P. Z. S. 18315, p. 85. 



Tribouyx ventralis, Gould, in Grey's Trav. Austr. App. ii. p. 420 ; id. 

 B. Austr. vi. pi. 72 (1845); Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 5;»il (184."j) ; 

 lit'ichenb. Viiy. Neuhuil. p. 151 (1849); id. Handb., tuUcarice, 

 tab. ecciv. ti^. ilOO (1852) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 325 

 (lbG5j ; Set. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 816 (Tasmania) ; Gray, Iland-l. B. 

 iii. p. 05, no. 10492 (1871); Ramsay, P. Z. 8. 1877, p. 314 

 ((Queensland) ; id. Proc. Linn. Sac. X. S. W. ii. p. 21 (1878); id. 

 •>l>.cit. ii. p. 172 (1888: Derby); id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 21 

 (18S8) ; Nvrth, Kests and Eygs Austr. B. p. 324, pi. xvii. tig-. 4 

 (1^90). 



Microtribonyx ventralis, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. v. p. xxix 

 (1893). 



Adult male. General colour above olive-brown, with a somewhat 

 greenish tinge ; wings browner than the back, the tirst primary 

 edged with white ; tail blackish brown ; crown of head a little 

 browner than the back ; lores, region of the eye, sides of face, and 

 throat dusky slate-colour ; remainder of the under surface from the 

 fore neck downwards dark slaty blue ; abdomen and thighs Ijluckish ; 

 under tail-coverts black ; sides of body brown, as also the under 

 wing-coverts and axillarics ; sides of upper breast washed with 

 olive-green ; long feathers of lower breast with large ovate spots at 

 the ends : "upper mandible beautiful pea-green, becoming rather 

 paler at the tip ; base of lower mandible light reddish orange, the 

 tip like that of the other ; legs and feet deep brick-red ; iris tine 

 orange" (J. Gould). Total length lU-5 inches, culmen 1-25, 

 wing 8-7, tail 3-4, tarsus 2-4, middle toe and claw 2-5. 



Bab. Western and Southern Australia, re-occurring in the Port 

 Denison district and the Gulf of Carjientaria. 



fl. Ad. sk. At sea, between Tasmania and Antarctic Expedition. 



Auckland Islands. 



*. Ad. sk. South Australia. C. D. E. Fortnum, 



Esq. [P.]. 



c. 2ad. sk. South Australia (/. (VohW). Sir G. Grev^'^P."'. 



d. Ad. sk. Port Lincoln. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. liiver DailinjT. Gould Coll. 



