32. ^IGIAIITIS. 301 



secondaries, so that two at least of these are pure white ; the inner- 

 most long secondaries brown, externally lighter brown, washed with 

 rufous ; upper tail-coverts rufous, with blackish centres to most ol 

 them ; centre tail-feathers blackish, the next ones ashy brown at 

 the base and tipped with white, before which therejs a sub-terminal 

 black band, decreasing in extent towards the outer feathers, the 

 outermost being entirely white, with a little spot of black near the 

 end of the inner web only ; crown of head brown ; forehead and lores 

 black, as well as the leathers above and below the eye, extending 

 in a band along the ear-coverts, and joining a black patch on the 

 hind-neck ; this black band separated from the brown crown by a 

 broad superciliary line of white, which starts from behind the 

 lores, encircles the sides of the crown, and meets on the nape ; 

 cheeks, throat, and underparts white, with a broad black collar on 

 the fore-neck, descending to a point on the breast, and uniting 

 laterally with the black collar round the hind-neck ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, those round the bend of the wing 

 blackish like the lower surface of the primaries : " bill orange at 

 the base and black at the tip ; feet orange Mesh-colour in some, in 

 others palo flesh-colour ; eyelid bright red ; iris dark brown " 

 (J. Gould). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 4--A-, tail 2-1, 

 tarsus 09. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage, but with the 

 maroon scapulars somewhat paler. Total length 5-8 inches, wing 

 4-3. 



Young. Reproduces the colours of the adult, but has the whole 

 of the upper plumage mottled with sandy-buff edges to the feathers, 

 with generally a sub-marginal line of dusky blackish ; scapulars 

 blackish, with maroon tips to the feathers as well as to the lesser 

 wing- coverts ; head entirely brown, with no black on the forehead ; 

 eyebrow sandy buff ; nape with a white patch ; under surface of 

 body white, with no black band on the fore-neck, but some of the 

 lateral feathers of the latter mottled with dusky bases. # 



Bab. Australia. Supposed to have occurred once in Madras. 



a. Ad. st. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [P.], 



b. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell |_P.J. 

 c.Ad.sk. Australia. Lady Carriugton |_P. . 



d. Ad. sk. Australia. Tweeddale Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. South Australia. Capt. Sturt [P.]. 

 /, y. Ad. sk. South Australia. Sir G. Grey (_P.J. 



h, i. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Australian Museum. 



k. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Wellington, N.S.W. Lord Leigh [P.]. 



m, n, o. Ad. sk. Queensland. Salvin-Codman Coll. 



p,q. J $ ad. sk. Queensland. Seebohm Coll. 



r. Ad. sk. Queensland. Tweeddale Coll. 



s. Ad.sk. N.W. Australia. J. It. Llsey, Esq. [P. 



t. 6 2 ad.; u, Derby, N.W. Australia (2*. H. Capt. Bowyer Bower 



v. Juv. sk. liowyer Bmoer), [P.]. 



to. cf ad. sk. River Avon, Western Aus- Gould Coll. 

 tralia, June 17. 



